Tropescilloscope: Put on a Bus

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