Tropescilloscope: Novelization

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