Tropescilloscope: Mythology Gag

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