Tropescilloscope: Only in It for the Money

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