Tropescilloscope: Mythology Gag

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