Tropescilloscope: Reality Has No Subtitles

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