Tropescilloscope: No Celebrities Were Harmed

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