Tropescilloscope: Romantic Comedy

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