Tropescilloscope: Random Events Plot

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