Tropescilloscope: Real Life

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