Tropescilloscope: Retcon

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