Tropescilloscope: Refuge in Audacity

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