Tropescilloscope: Public Domain Feature Films

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