Tropescilloscope: Retcon

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