Tropescilloscope: Retcon

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