Tropescilloscope: Put on a Bus

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