Tropescilloscope: Public Domain Feature Films

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