Tropescilloscope: Mystery and Detective Films

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More Tropes Demonic Possession Silence Is Golden La Résistance Throwing Your Sword Always Works Coming-of-Age Story Slasher Movie Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Karma Houdini Roaring Rampage of Revenge Combat Pragmatist Epic Fail Mind Screw Chiaroscuro Deus ex Machina Nothing Is Scarier Gorn Politically Incorrect Villain Red Oni, Blue Oni Death by Adaptation Corrupt Corporate Executive All for Nothing Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Black Best Friend Took a Level in Badass No Celebrities Were Harmed Curse Cut Short All Just a Dream Big Damn Heroes Grievous Bottley Harm Meaningful Echo Television Movie Index Brutal Honesty Unresolved Sexual Tension Say My Name Token Minority Martial Arts Movie Those Two Guys Hidden Depths Insistent Terminology Double-Meaning Title Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Star-Crossed Lovers Stealth Pun Babies Ever After Captain Obvious Reckless Gun Usage Dirty Coward The Cavalry Aside Glance Deadpan Snarker Yandere Psychopathic Manchild Fate Worse than Death Anguished Declaration of Love Rewatch Bonus Greater-Scope Villain A Father to His Men For the Evulz Demoted to Extra Double Entendre Rule of Symbolism Fantasy Films Pay Evil unto Evil Slashed Throat The Film of the Book Man on Fire Heroes Want Redheads French Films Spiteful Spit Dumb Blonde Flipping the Bird Failed a Spot Check Funny Background Event Those Two Bad Guys Immune to Bullets Film Noir Index Author Avatar Camera Abuse Dark and Troubled Past Conspicuous CG Villain Protagonist Screw the Money, I Have Rules! She's Got Legs Evil Is Petty In the Back What the Hell, Hero? Canon Foreigner The Remake Animal Title Index Self-Deprecation Mythology Gag Ghost Fiction Meaningful Name The Big Guy After the End Here We Go Again! The Casanova Stepford Smiler Stuff Blowing Up Beware the Nice Ones The X of Y Mugging the Monster Improvised Weapon Fanservice Extra Kill It with Fire Evil vs. Evil Sadistic Choice Foregone Conclusion Jerkass Death by Sex Monumental Damage Accidental Misnaming Improbable Aiming Skills Bunny-Ears Lawyer And Starring Adaptation Distillation Anyone Can Die Children Are Innocent Henpecked Husband Christmas Movies Index The Chessmaster Retired Badass Downer Ending Reasonable Authority Figure Moment Killer Apocalypse How Sequel Hook Amoral Attorney No-Sell Blood from the Mouth Works Set in World War II Sir Swears-a-Lot Older Than They Look One Steve Limit Honor Before Reason Cruel and Unusual Death Creepy Child Only in It for the Money Anti-Villain Disney Death Ambiguously Gay Famous Last Words Half the Man He Used to Be The Musical Big Bad Duumvirate Lighter and Softer The Load Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Gone Horribly Right Rasputinian Death What Happened to the Mouse? Freudian Excuse Big Bad Fun with Acronyms Exactly What It Says on the Tin The Starscream Thriller Naked People Are Funny MacGuffin Suspiciously Specific Denial A Minor Kidroduction The Stoic 20 Minutes into the Future Creator Cameo Rated M for Manly Made of Iron Storming the Castle Once More, with Clarity! Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Accidental Murder Cool Old Lady Your Cheating Heart Belligerent Sexual Tension Fantastic Racism Obfuscating Stupidity Woman in White Action Genre Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Genre Throwback Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Soft Glass Well-Intentioned Extremist Card-Carrying Villain Amusing Injuries Fiery Redhead Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Instant Death Bullet Scare Chord Meet Cute Betty and Veronica Heel–Face Turn Five-Man Band Very Loosely Based on a True Story Dwindling Party Market-Based Title In Medias Res Noodle Incident Police are Useless Obstructive Bureaucrat Defiant to the End And I Must Scream Expository Hairstyle Change The Place Dutch Angle The Bully Be Careful What You Wish For Psychological Thriller Hero Antagonist B-Movie Loads and Loads of Characters Break the Cutie Deliberately Monochrome Fish out of Water Idiot Ball Show Within a Show Not So Above It All Chekhov's Gunman Parental Substitute Cool Car A.I. Is a Crapshoot Cool Old Guy The Atoner Corpsing The Alcoholic Even Evil Has Standards Logo Joke Red Right Hand Developing Doomed Characters Room Full of Crazy Animated Credits Opening Russian Films Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Does Not Like Shoes Hollywood Law Totally Radical Chekhov's Skill Animal Motifs Not What It Looks Like Re-Cut Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Cluster F-Bomb Jerkass Has a Point Cool Shades Ironic Echo Historical Hero Upgrade Handicapped Badass Breaking the Fourth Wall Leave the Camera Running Bond Villain Stupidity Artistic License – Biology Historical In-Joke Continuity Nod Captain Ersatz Book-Ends Mooks The Faceless Spanner in the Works Car Fu Eureka Moment Wham Shot Australian Movies Rape as Drama Death Seeker Chase Scene Taking You with Me Dark Is Not Evil An Aesop Bald of Evil May–December Romance The Voiceless Gratuitous English Fatal Family Photo Vitriolic Best Buds Dressing as the Enemy Distracted by the Sexy No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Award-Bait Song Karmic Death Frame-Up Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Grey and Gray Morality Redshirt Army Hypocritical Humor Mr. Fanservice Bad "Bad Acting" Sequel Escalation Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Hero of Another Story Pragmatic Villainy Author Appeal You Killed My Father Overly Long Gag Neck Snap Composite Character Film Noir Ripped from the Headlines Face–Heel Turn My Greatest Failure The Dreaded Domestic Abuse Due to the Dead Neck Lift Big Fancy House Have a Gay Old Time Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Femme Fatale Defrosting Ice Queen Jitter Cam Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Novelization Ms. Fanservice Papa Wolf Bilingual Bonus All There in the Script Fat Bastard Vomit Indiscretion Shot I Need a Freaking Drink Earn Your Happy Ending Shown Their Work Auto Erotica The Mole Aluminum Christmas Trees Mama Bear Plucky Comic Relief Evil Laugh Black Comedy Rape Adapted Out Properly Paranoid Would Hurt a Child Large Ham Heroic Sacrifice True Companions Facial Horror Reality Ensues Action Prologue Driven to Suicide Face Death with Dignity The Lost Lenore Artistic License – Military No OSHA Compliance Left the Background Music On Berserk Button The '80s Cat Fight Jerk with a Heart of Gold Wrong Genre Savvy Imagine Spot Small Name, Big Ego Nice Hat Hell Is That Noise This Is Gonna Suck I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Victoria's Secret Compartment The Ghost Final Girl Alas, Poor Villain Horror Films Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold She Cleans Up Nicely Obviously Evil Serious Business Anachronism Stew Canadian Movies Knight Templar Closed Circle Lampshade Hanging Science Fiction Films Dirty Cop Training Montage Documentary Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Psycho for Hire Bland-Name Product Anachronic Order Reality Is Unrealistic Tranquil Fury Costume Porn Armor-Piercing Question '80s Hair Love Triangle Spared by the Adaptation Tempting Fate Artistic License – Law Knife Nut The Alleged Car Big-Bad Ensemble Super Strength All There in the Manual The Great Depression Gender Flip Bound and Gagged Rousing Speech Romantic Comedy Big Eater Death Glare No Antagonist Based on a True Story Daylight Horror Bar Brawl Tagline Pre-Mortem One-Liner Alpha Bitch Real Life Writes the Plot Decoy Protagonist Adults Are Useless Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Black Dude Dies First Eagleland The Brute Your Head A-Splode Adaptational Attractiveness Race Lift Kick the Son of a Bitch Gainax Ending Everyone Has Standards Drowning My Sorrows Homage My God, What Have I Done? Gilligan Cut Woman Scorned Attempted Rape It's All About Me Blackmail Maybe Ever After Improbable Weapon User Leitmotif Historical-Domain Character Implacable Man Bury Your Gays Disproportionate Retribution Didn't Think This Through An Axe to Grind I Did What I Had to Do Unreliable Narrator Authority Equals Asskicking Dropped a Bridge on Him Slasher Smile Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Sinister Minister Determinator aka: The Determinator The Lancer Sports Stories Action Girl Whole Plot Reference Rich Bitch Calling the Old Man Out Jump Scare More Dakka Cloudcuckoolander Deliberate Values Dissonance Eiffel Tower Effect Early-Bird Cameo Stalker with a Crush What You Are in the Dark Ass Shove Villain with Good Publicity Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Smoking Is Cool Superhero From Bad to Worse Beta Couple Biopic Contrived Coincidence Celebrity Paradox Up to Eleven timeperiod Dying Moment of Awesome The Un-Reveal Protagonist Title Villain Song Shell-Shocked Veteran Black Comedy Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Hope Spot The Mafia Artistic License – History The Vamp Bolivian Army Ending I'm a Humanitarian Cassandra Truth The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Red Shirt Parental Neglect Undying Loyalty Agony of the Feet Retcon Eye Scream The Power of Love Shut Up, Hannibal! Call-Back Flashback Parental Abandonment Light Is Not Good Playing Gertrude How We Got Here Disappeared Dad Dual Wielding Naïve Newcomer Broken Bird Arch-Enemy Bloodier and Gorier Never My Fault Happily Married Really Gets Around Arranged Marriage Military and Warfare Films Artistic License – Physics The Smart Guy Madness Mantra Stock Footage The Stinger Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Took a Level in Jerkass From Nobody to Nightmare Unspoken Plan Guarantee Sci-Fi Horror Sealed Evil in a Can Disguised in Drag Bi the Way Dramedy Villain Ball Badass Bookworm Becoming the Mask Sassy Black Woman Intrepid Reporter And the Adventure Continues Funny Foreigner Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Brick Joke Oh, Crap! Real Life Drives Like Crazy Zombie Stories Loophole Abuse Badass Grandpa Ship Tease Smug Snake Too Dumb to Live Taking the Bullet Skewed Priorities Diabolus ex Machina Heroic BSoD Mr. Exposition Twist Ending Abhorrent Admirer Villain Opening Scene German Films Actually Pretty Funny Crazy Jealous Guy Determinator Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Hong Kong Films Black and Gray Morality Precision F-Strike Genre Savvy Bond One-Liner Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Stealth Hi/Bye Take That! Time Skip Japanese Films Truth in Television All Men Are Perverts The '90s Wretched Hive Men Are the Expendable Gender Killed Mid-Sentence Faux Affably Evil Affably Evil Spiritual Successor Not Quite Dead Bittersweet Ending As Long as It Sounds Foreign Kill 'em All Death of a Child Anti-Hero The Smurfette Principle Death by Irony Did Not Get the Girl Straight Gay Bad Boss Our Vampires Are Different Groin Attack Redemption Equals Death Big Brother Instinct Brother–Sister Incest Body Horror Fanservice Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Take a Third Option Disney Villain Death Retirony Asshole Victim Suddenly SHOUTING! Easily Forgiven Match Cut Crazy-Prepared Cowboy Cop Mood Whiplash Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Random Events Plot Heel Realization Adaptational Badass Vacation Films Only One Name Mistaken for Gay Evil Is Hammy Missing Mom Comically Missing the Point Riddle for the Ages Mundane Made Awesome Ax-Crazy Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Exact Words Only Sane Man Evil Brit Product Placement Drill Sergeant Nasty Fatal Flaw All Girls Want Bad Boys The Bad Guy Wins Hair-Trigger Temper Kids Are Cruel Fingore Bring My Brown Pants Manipulative Bastard Manchild Bullying a Dragon Get Out! The Ace Crucified Hero Shot Shirtless Scene Music Stories Only a Flesh Wound Paper-Thin Disguise Names to Run Away from Really Fast The Quiet One Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Same Language Dub Only Known by Their Nickname Married to the Job Not Using the "Z" Word Punch-Clock Villain Intergenerational Friendship Shipper on Deck Faking the Dead Wicked Cultured Recycled IN SPACE! Hollywood Darkness Getting Crap Past the Radar Trailers Always Spoil He Who Fights Monsters Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Would Hit a Girl Unwitting Instigator of Doom The '60s Pragmatic Adaptation A Date with Rosie Palms Posthumous Character Important Haircut The Hero Eldritch Abomination Evil Counterpart The Ditz The Chick Actor Allusion Air-Vent Passageway Bait-and-Switch Sacrificial Lion Nice Guy Our Zombies Are Different "The Reason You Suck" Speech Adorkable Laser-Guided Karma Dark Reprise Bare Your Midriff Romantic False Lead Leaning on the Fourth Wall Slap-Slap-Kiss Central Theme Shower Scene Evil-Detecting Dog Damsel in Distress Awesome, but Impractical Scenery Gorn The Oner One-Word Title Deal with the Devil Translation Convention Blood Knight Ambiguous Disorder Spell My Name with an "S" Empathic Environment Horror Comedy Poor Communication Kills The Sociopath Red Herring It Can Think Deconstruction Scenery Porn Wham Line Bottomless Magazines Ascended Extra Serial Killer Expy Race Against the Clock Credits Gag Fire-Forged Friends Never Trust a Trailer Evil Sounds Deep Dull Surprise Badass Normal Danny Peary Cult Movies List Daddy's Girl Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Shoot the Shaggy Dog Crapsack World Gory Discretion Shot There Is No Kill Like Overkill "Well Done, Son!" Guy Depraved Bisexual Four-Temperament Ensemble Running Gag Fainting Abusive Parents Film Series Antagonist Title Outrun the Fireball Wounded Gazelle Gambit One-Man Army Ambiguous Ending Red Eyes, Take Warning Mad Scientist Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Tap on the Head Peek-a-Boo Corpse The Dragon Off with His Head! I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Fake Shemp Bavarian Fire Drill Bowdlerise Made of Explodium folderlabel Dramatic Irony Refuge in Audacity Mystery and Detective Films Unusual Euphemism Dies Wide Open Dogged Nice Guy Badass Boast You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Cat Scare Evil Plan Curb-Stomp Battle Love at First Sight Adaptation Expansion The Stoner Line-of-Sight Name NO INDOOR VOICE Shout-Out Beard of Evil Advertised Extra As Himself Word of God Plot Hole Arc Words Narrator No Ending Batman Gambit Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Guns Akimbo British Films Public Domain Feature Films Department of Redundancy Department Pretty in Mink Adult Fear Enemy Mine In Name Only Hypocrite Manic Pixie Dream Girl Beauty Is Never Tarnished He Knows Too Much Historical Villain Upgrade Even Evil Has Loved Ones Big "NO!" Offscreen Teleportation Cool Guns Camp Gay Fourth Date Marriage Genre Shift Ungrateful Bastard Boom, Headshot! Catch-Phrase Adaptation Dye-Job Humans Are Bastards Punny Name Affectionate Parody Needs Wiki Magic Love Framing Device Good Is Not Nice Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Guile Hero Vomit Discretion Shot Chekhov's Gun Almost Kiss Action Survivor Morality Pet Better to Die than Be Killed Off-into-the-Distance Ending No Name Given Badass in a Nice Suit An Arm and a Leg The Cameo Rule of Three Does This Remind You of Anything? Extremely Short Timespan Reality Has No Subtitles Those Wacky Nazis Kubrick Stare Let's Get Dangerous! War Is Hell Lock and Load Montage Motor Mouth As You Know Title Drop Manly Tears Foreshadowing Mighty Whitey Darkest Hour Brainless Beauty Informed Ability Call-Forward Character Development I Have Your Wife Scary Black Man Index of Film Westerns Alliterative Name Major Injury Underreaction No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Covers Always Lie Non-Indicative Name Put on a Bus Butt-Monkey Pimped-Out Dress Interrupted Suicide Jerk Jock Adaptation Name Change Video Credits Early Installment Weirdness Sole Survivor Darker and Edgier Male Frontal Nudity Epic Movie Suspiciously Similar Substitute Hate Sink Not So Different Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Rule of Cool Foil Setting Update Pretty Little Headshots Visual Pun Broken Pedestal World of Ham O.O.C. Is Serious Business Dark Action Girl Extreme Doormat Not Even Bothering with the Accent Adaptational Heroism Friend to All Children The Dog Bites Back Hooker with a Heart of Gold Together in Death "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Worthy Opponent Establishing Character Moment It's Personal Hoist by His Own Petard Laughing Mad Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Revenge Creative Closing Credits Never Found the Body Heterosexual Life-Partners Adaptational Villainy The '70s Dramatic Gun Cock Cold-Blooded Torture Offscreen Moment of Awesome "Awesome McCool" Name Dirty Old Man Pyrrhic Victory Age Lift Artistic License – Gun Safety Vampire Fiction Stylistic Suck Mexican Standoff You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Bloodless Carnage Sanity Slippage As the Good Book Says... Rule of Funny Meaningful Background Event Last-Name Basis Blatant Lies Gold Digger Kick the Dog Ominous Latin Chanting "Shaggy Dog" Story Break the Haughty Mercy Kill Artistic License – Geography Back from the Dead The Reveal Bloody Hilarious Eyepatch of Power Parental Incest Big Applesauce Destination Defenestration Insult Backfire Villainous Breakdown Unusually Uninteresting Sight Male Gaze Fan Disservice My Beloved Smother Insane Troll Logic Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Dissonant Serenity Despair Event Horizon Casting Gag Sexy Discretion Shot Soundtrack Dissonance You Have Failed Me Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Police Brutality Cain and Abel A God Am I Broken Aesop BFG Make It Look Like an Accident Toplessness from the Back Badass Longcoat Silent Movie The '50s Annoying Younger Sibling Humiliation Conga Pet the Dog Green-Eyed Monster Drugs Are Bad Every Car Is a Pinto For Want of a Nail The End... Or Is It? The Hero Dies Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Overprotective Dad Not So Stoic Freeze-Frame Bonus Malevolent Masked Men Country Matters Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Catapult Nightmare N-Word Privileges Chewing the Scenery It Will Never Catch On Italian Films Irony