Tropescilloscope: Mystery and Detective Films

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