Tropescilloscope: Put on a Bus

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