Tropescilloscope: No Celebrities Were Harmed

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