Tropescilloscope: Public Domain Feature Films

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