Tropescilloscope: Novelization

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