Tropescilloscope: Neck Lift

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