Tropescilloscope: Novelization

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