Tropescilloscope: Once More, with Clarity!

We see the same scene... but flipped on its head with new backstory and context. (read more at tvtropes.org)

Film Frequency (%) Film Frequency (#)

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