Tropescilloscope: Novelization

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