Tropescilloscope: Novelization

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