Tropescilloscope: Real Life

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