Tropescilloscope: Mythology Gag

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