Tropescilloscope: Romantic Comedy

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