Tropescilloscope: Public Domain Feature Films

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