Tropescilloscope: Retcon

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