Tropescilloscope: No Celebrities Were Harmed

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