Tropescilloscope: Mythology Gag

Reference to another work from the same franchise. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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