Tropescilloscope: Roger Ebert: Great Movies List

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