Tropescilloscope: Retcon

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