Tropescilloscope: Random Events Plot

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