Tropescilloscope: No Celebrities Were Harmed

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