Tropescilloscope: Public Domain Feature Films

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