Tropescilloscope: Roger Ebert: Great Movies List

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