Tropescilloscope: Only in It for the Money

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