Tropescilloscope: Put on a Bus

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