Tropescilloscope: Put on a Bus

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