Tropescilloscope: Put on a Bus

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