Tropescilloscope: Mystery and Detective Films

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