Tropescilloscope: Retcon

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