Tropescilloscope: Retirony

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