Tropescilloscope: Public Domain Feature Films

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