Tropescilloscope: Romantic Comedy

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