Tropescilloscope: Mythology Gag

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