Tropescilloscope: Retcon

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