Tropescilloscope: One Steve Limit

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