Tropescilloscope: Mystery and Detective Films

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