Tropescilloscope: Public Domain Feature Films

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