Tropescilloscope: Real Life

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