Tropescilloscope: Public Domain Feature Films

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