Tropescilloscope: Mythology Gag

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