Tropescilloscope: Public Domain Feature Films

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