Tropescilloscope: Random Events Plot

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