Tropescilloscope: Real Life Writes the Plot

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