Tropescilloscope: Revenge

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