Tropescilloscope: Reality Has No Subtitles

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