Tropescilloscope: Random Events Plot

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