Tropescilloscope: Novelization

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