Tropescilloscope: Roger Ebert: Great Movies List

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