Tropescilloscope: Real Life Writes the Plot

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