Tropescilloscope: Real Life Writes the Plot

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