Tropescilloscope: Put on a Bus

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