Tropescilloscope: Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies

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