Tropescilloscope: Retirony

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