Tropescilloscope: Random Events Plot

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