Tropescilloscope: Public Domain Feature Films

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