Tropescilloscope: Novelization

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