Tropescilloscope: Not So Above It All

When the serious-minded, no-fun Straight Man has maintained dignity with a straight face suddenly relaxes and joins in the fun. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Epilogue Tranquil Fury Mr. Exposition Annoying Younger Sibling Evil Brit Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? You Killed My Father What the Hell, Hero? Neck Lift Pretty in Mink Whole Plot Reference Drugs Are Bad Ms. Fanservice Arch-Enemy German Films Fanservice Extra Here We Go Again! Animated Credits Opening Posthumous Character Jerkass Sanity Slippage Vomit Discretion Shot All Men Are Perverts Green-Eyed Monster Rated M for Manly Five-Man Band Camera Abuse Insult Backfire The Voiceless Actually Pretty Funny Bloodier and Gorier Bowdlerise Japanese Films Dressing as the Enemy Anti-Hero Intergenerational Friendship Biopic Amoral Attorney Country Matters Really Gets Around Alpha Bitch Punch-Clock Villain Sexy Discretion Shot Made of Iron Parental Incest Translation Convention Twist Ending Our Vampires Are Different Serious Business Aside Glance Fire-Forged Friends Auto Erotica Bond Villain Stupidity Maybe Ever After Fingore Insistent Terminology Mexican Standoff Alas, Poor Villain Agony of the Feet Stealth Pun Stepford Smiler Chekhov's Gunman Black Comedy Retired Badass Jump Scare Anachronism Stew Psychological Thriller Deliberate Values Dissonance Composite Character Rewatch Bonus Defrosting Ice Queen Evil Is Hammy Meet Cute One Steve Limit Dark and Troubled Past Works Set in World War II Did Not Get the Girl Cassandra Truth Manic Pixie Dream Girl World of Ham Evil Is Petty Deal with the Devil Disproportionate Retribution Pimped-Out Dress Decoy Protagonist Spanner in the Works Noodle Incident Rule of Cool The Dragon Put on a Bus Real Life Writes the Plot Paper-Thin Disguise Those Two Bad Guys B-Movie Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Historical Hero Upgrade Artistic License – Biology Death of a Child Coming-of-Age Story N-Word Privileges My Beloved Smother Karmic Death Dull Surprise Non-Indicative Name Sci-Fi Horror Flipping the Bird Adaptation Expansion Product Placement Truth in Television Rule of Three Extreme Doormat Kill 'em All Babies Ever After Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Handicapped Badass Implacable Man Crazy Jealous Guy Poor Communication Kills A Minor Kidroduction Police are Useless Parental Neglect In Name Only Eye Scream Enemy Mine Public Domain Feature Films Bring My Brown Pants Comically Missing the Point The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite More Dakka Genre Savvy Villainous Breakdown Never Found the Body Bavarian Fire Drill Disguised in Drag Vacation Films Heterosexual Life-Partners Sequel Escalation No Celebrities Were Harmed Scenery Porn Genre Throwback May–December Romance Slasher Smile Blood Knight Grey and Gray Morality Reality Has No Subtitles Get Out! Re-Cut Rape as Drama "The Reason You Suck" Speech As Himself How We Got Here An Arm and a Leg The Power of Love Antagonist Title Black Best Friend Interrupted Suicide I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Knife Nut Beware the Nice Ones Artistic License – Geography Retcon Star-Crossed Lovers Race Lift Hong Kong Films Faux Affably Evil Hope Spot Not So Above It All Evil Plan Properly Paranoid Morality Pet Heroic Sacrifice Abusive Parents Novelization Blatant Lies Reckless Gun Usage The Hero Last-Name Basis Australian Movies Action Girl Lock and Load Montage Anguished Declaration of Love Roger Ebert: Great Movies List The Vamp Bloodless Carnage Took a Level in Badass Immune to Bullets Be Careful What You Wish For All for Nothing Suspiciously Specific Denial Film Noir Badass Boast Male Frontal Nudity He Who Fights Monsters Greater-Scope Villain Undying Loyalty A Father to His Men Brutal Honesty All There in the Manual Kill It with Fire Refuge in Audacity Ambiguously Gay All Girls Want Bad Boys Brother–Sister Incest Amusing Injuries Film Noir Index Animal Motifs From Nobody to Nightmare Breaking the Fourth Wall Mugging the Monster And I Must Scream Villain with Good Publicity Crucified Hero Shot Say My Name Peek-a-Boo Corpse Malevolent Masked Men Advertised Extra Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Those Wacky Nazis Costume Porn Asshole Victim Badass Bookworm Cluster F-Bomb Major Injury Underreaction Red Oni, Blue Oni The Ghost The Great Depression Early Installment Weirdness Badass Grandpa Anti-Villain For the Evulz I Need a Freaking Drink The Alleged Car Tagline Homage Politically Incorrect Villain Demonic Possession Intrepid Reporter Character Development Faking the Dead Destination Defenestration Pay Evil unto Evil The Oner Punny Name Diabolus ex Machina Mighty Whitey Catch-Phrase Death by Adaptation Skewed Priorities Slasher Movie Drowning My Sorrows Cool Old Guy Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Credits Gag Double-Meaning Title Reasonable Authority Figure Trailers Always Spoil Take a Third Option Arranged Marriage Guns Akimbo Affectionate Parody Gone Horribly Right Large Ham Together in Death Fate Worse than Death Adaptation Distillation Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Overly Long Gag Epic Movie Martial Arts Movie In the Back Fantastic Racism Final Girl Ax-Crazy It's All About Me Big Bad Duumvirate Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Celebrity Paradox Ass Shove Red Herring And Starring Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold The Mafia Stock Footage The Remake Pretty Little Headshots Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Bittersweet Ending Dissonant Serenity Call-Back Fourth Date Marriage Offscreen Moment of Awesome Have a Gay Old Time Rasputinian Death Depraved Bisexual Exactly What It Says on the Tin Anyone Can Die Broken Aesop Historical-Domain Character Love at First Sight Christmas Movies Index As You Know Russian Films Shoot the Shaggy Dog Call-Forward A God Am I Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Zombie Stories Does Not Like Shoes The Dog Bites Back Off with His Head! The '60s Only One Name Cain and Abel Deliberately Monochrome Camp Gay Accidental Misnaming Villain Ball Failed a Spot Check Took a Level in Jerkass Parental Abandonment Jerk Jock The Lost Lenore Meaningful Background Event Naïve Newcomer Ghost Fiction Drives Like Crazy O.O.C. 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Arc Words The Faceless Eldritch Abomination Improvised Weapon Very Loosely Based on a True Story An Axe to Grind Taking the Bullet Deadpan Snarker Worthy Opponent Badass in a Nice Suit Silence Is Golden Henpecked Husband Break the Cutie Face Death with Dignity Bait-and-Switch No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Narrator Word of God Wrong Genre Savvy Killed Mid-Sentence BFG Reality Ensues Woman in White Precision F-Strike Ship Tease Adult Fear Body Horror Fat Bastard Sadistic Choice Belligerent Sexual Tension Room Full of Crazy Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism French Films The Chick The Ditz Instant Death Bullet Flashback Logo Joke Film Series Bunny-Ears Lawyer Tap on the Head MacGuffin Running Gag Fake Shemp No Ending In Medias Res Beauty Is Never Tarnished Super Strength Kick the Son of a Bitch Obstructive Bureaucrat Curse Cut Short Distracted by the Sexy Fan Disservice Even Evil Has Loved Ones Bury Your Gays Black Comedy Rape Central Theme Unreliable Narrator Historical Villain Upgrade Laughing Mad Once More, with Clarity! 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Guy Driven to Suicide Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Canon Foreigner Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas I Have Your Wife Villain Protagonist The '70s Let's Get Dangerous! Retirony Lampshade Hanging Redemption Equals Death No OSHA Compliance Brainless Beauty Ironic Echo Cool Car Face–Heel Turn Book-Ends Frame-Up True Companions Mama Bear Shown Their Work Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Red Right Hand Irony Deus ex Machina All Just a Dream Death Seeker "Shaggy Dog" Story Villain Opening Scene The Place Leave the Camera Running Mythology Gag Pyrrhic Victory Dark Reprise What Happened to the Mouse? Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Even Evil Has Standards Crazy-Prepared Slashed Throat The Atoner Unusually Uninteresting Sight Grievous Bottley Harm What You Are in the Dark Spared by the Adaptation The Smart Guy Black and Gray Morality Dirty Cop Broken Pedestal As Long as It Sounds Foreign Older Than They Look Sports Stories Our Zombies Are Different Stylistic Suck Television Movie Index The Stoner Canadian Movies Unresolved Sexual Tension Cat Fight Bloody Hilarious Index of Film Westerns Horror Films Eyepatch of Power Dual Wielding Dirty Old Man Dumb Blonde Half the Man He Used to Be As the Good Book Says... Good Is Not Nice Chase Scene Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Blackmail Fun with Acronyms Fatal Flaw Continuity Nod Cat Scare Villain Song Affably Evil Getting Crap Past the Radar My God, What Have I Done? Determinator aka: The Determinator Covers Always Lie Leitmotif Honor Before Reason Exact Words Black Dude Dies First Hair-Trigger Temper Bald of Evil Oh, Crap! Big Applesauce Italian Films Jerkass Has a Point Obfuscating Stupidity Didn't Think This Through Dramedy Fantasy Films Totally Radical Conspicuous CG Random Events Plot Guile Hero