Tropescilloscope: Random Events Plot

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