Tropescilloscope: Red Right Hand

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