Tropescilloscope: Roger Ebert: Great Movies List

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