Tropescilloscope: Refuge in Audacity

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