Tropescilloscope: Random Events Plot

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