Tropescilloscope: Mythology Gag

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

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