Tropescilloscope: Refuge in Audacity

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