Tropescilloscope: Random Events Plot

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