Tropescilloscope: Mythology Gag

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