Tropescilloscope: Mythology Gag

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