Tropescilloscope: Public Domain Feature Films

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