Tropescilloscope: Novelization

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