Tropescilloscope: Refuge in Audacity

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