Tropescilloscope: Police Brutality

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