Tropescilloscope: Romantic Comedy

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