Tropescilloscope: Roger Ebert: Great Movies List

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