Tropescilloscope: Older Than They Look

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