Tropescilloscope: Romantic Comedy

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