Tropescilloscope: Retcon

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