Tropescilloscope: No-Sell

Character is unaffected by an attack or ability. (read more at tvtropes.org)

Film Frequency (%) Film Frequency (#)

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