Tropescilloscope: Novelization

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