Tropescilloscope: Romantic Comedy

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More Tropes Scenery Gorn Dissonant Serenity Spared by the Adaptation Take a Third Option Hoist by His Own Petard Only Known by Their Nickname Storming the Castle Villain Opening Scene No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Insult Backfire folderlabel As the Good Book Says... Redemption Equals Death Very Loosely Based on a True Story Artistic License – Geography Aside Glance Film Noir Bury Your Gays German Films Card-Carrying Villain An Aesop Dirty Old Man Auto Erotica Never My Fault Blackmail The Chessmaster The Musical In Medias Res Four-Temperament Ensemble Cold-Blooded Torture Double-Meaning Title An Axe to Grind Naïve Newcomer And the Adventure Continues The Quiet One Manchild Greater-Scope Villain Pretty in Mink Fanservice Politically Incorrect Villain Dogged Nice Guy The Smart Guy Age Lift Not Quite Dead Stock Footage Despair Event Horizon Ambiguous Ending Intergenerational Friendship Advertised Extra Flashback Attempted Rape Face–Heel Turn The '80s Insistent Terminology Creative Closing Credits Butt-Monkey Grievous Bottley Harm Corpsing Sanity Slippage She Cleans Up Nicely Serious Business Belligerent Sexual Tension Up to Eleven Shell-Shocked Veteran Affectionate Parody Genre Shift Names to Run Away from Really Fast Soft Glass Fire-Forged Friends Dark Reprise Historical Hero Upgrade Casting Gag Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Rule of Cool Cool Old Guy World of Ham Artistic License – Military Visual Pun Bullying a Dragon Jerk Jock Fate Worse than Death A.I. Is a Crapshoot Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Anachronic Order Tagline Bavarian Fire Drill Chekhov's Skill Adaptational Attractiveness Light Is Not Good Ass Shove Tranquil Fury Bittersweet Ending Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Papa Wolf Punch-Clock Villain Heroic Sacrifice Badass Boast Spell My Name with an "S" Cowboy Cop Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Artistic License – Physics Decoy Protagonist Plucky Comic Relief Ax-Crazy Narrator Wretched Hive Dutch Angle Famous Last Words Gainax Ending Drill Sergeant Nasty Oh, Crap! Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Too Dumb to Live Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? You Killed My Father Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Retired Badass Covers Always Lie O.O.C. Is Serious Business Brainless Beauty Artistic License – Biology Developing Doomed Characters Wounded Gazelle Gambit Captain Ersatz Hair-Trigger Temper Throwing Your Sword Always Works Bound and Gagged Evil Laugh The Film of the Book For the Evulz Girl-on-Girl Is Hot How We Got Here Fun with Acronyms Adaptational Villainy Humiliation Conga Our Zombies Are Different Homage Real Life Writes the Plot Nothing Is Scarier Off-into-the-Distance Ending War Is Hell Man on Fire Naked People Are Funny Video Credits Instant Death Bullet Foil Informed Ability Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Rated M for Manly Mad Scientist Brother–Sister Incest Running Gag Retcon Horror Films Antagonist Title Undying Loyalty Laser-Guided Karma Department of Redundancy Department Flipping the Bird Dual Wielding Pimped-Out Dress Loophole Abuse Villain Ball Character Development Babies Ever After Henpecked Husband Sequel Hook Ungrateful Bastard Say My Name Evil Is Hammy Mooks No Celebrities Were Harmed Drugs Are Bad Dropped a Bridge on Him Took a Level in Jerkass Improbable Aiming Skills Pay Evil unto Evil Central Theme Only in It for the Money Historical Villain Upgrade Foreshadowing Beta Couple Love at First Sight Title Drop Twist Ending Freudian Excuse Dramedy Betty and Veronica Outrun the Fireball Woman Scorned Would Hit a Girl The Ace Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Line-of-Sight Name Vomit Indiscretion Shot Unusual Euphemism timeperiod Groin Attack Hidden Depths Parental Neglect Big Brother Instinct One Steve Limit Happily Married NO INDOOR VOICE Breaking the Fourth Wall Police Brutality Market-Based Title The Smurfette Principle Based on a True Story Eureka Moment Sealed Evil in a Can Wicked Cultured All for Nothing Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Mr. Fanservice Hell Is That Noise Random Events Plot Military and Warfare Films May–December Romance My Beloved Smother Genre Savvy Didn't Think This Through Darkest Hour Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Never Found the Body More Dakka Chiaroscuro Animal Title Index Actually Pretty Funny Only a Flesh Wound Big Eater Dwindling Party Not What It Looks Like Adaptation Dye-Job Poor Communication Kills Every Car Is a Pinto Final Girl Face Death with Dignity Obfuscating Stupidity Cassandra Truth Japanese Films As You Know Sir Swears-a-Lot As Long as It Sounds Foreign Faking the Dead Shower Scene He Knows Too Much Sequel Escalation Alas, Poor Villain Punctuated! For! Emphasis! One-Word Title Anyone Can Die You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! One-Man Army Adorkable Villain with Good Publicity Pragmatic Adaptation MacGuffin Straight Gay Knight Templar No OSHA Compliance Boom, Headshot! 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Mr. Exposition No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Dirty Cop Skewed Priorities Music Stories Apocalypse How Manic Pixie Dream Girl Neck Lift In the Back Cool Car All There in the Manual Reality Ensues Combat Pragmatist Reality Has No Subtitles Smoking Is Cool Getting Crap Past the Radar Badass Grandpa Bland-Name Product Call-Forward The Big Guy Alliterative Name Get Out! The Casanova Never Trust a Trailer Early-Bird Cameo Offscreen Teleportation Playing Gertrude Put on a Bus Male Frontal Nudity Rule of Three Suddenly SHOUTING! Cool Shades Armor-Piercing Question Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Show Within a Show Cloudcuckoolander There Is No Kill Like Overkill Take That! Damsel in Distress Deus ex Machina Broken Pedestal Unusually Uninteresting Sight Comically Missing the Point Wham Line Would Hurt a Child You Have Failed Me Did Not Get the Girl Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Crucified Hero Shot The Hero Dies Well-Intentioned Extremist Framing Device A Minor Kidroduction Hooker with a Heart of Gold Empathic Environment Implacable Man Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Hero of Another Story Serial Killer Fanservice Extra Canon Foreigner Martial Arts Movie Improvised Weapon Slasher Movie Killed Mid-Sentence Green-Eyed Monster Adaptation Expansion All Just a Dream Ghost Fiction Faux Affably Evil The Dreaded Accidental Misnaming Driven to Suicide Scary Black Man Bloodier and Gorier Fantasy Films Black Dude Dies First Product Placement Body Horror Morality Pet The Lancer Expy The Dog Bites Back Meaningful Echo Ascended Extra Corrupt Corporate Executive Translation Convention Room Full of Crazy Back from the Dead Fantastic Racism Beauty Is Never Tarnished Unresolved Sexual Tension Dumb Blonde Guns Akimbo Air-Vent Passageway Blatant Lies Major Injury Underreaction Not So Different Only One Name Dark and Troubled Past The Bully Spiritual Successor The Stoic My God, What Have I Done? I Need a Freaking Drink Stepford Smiler The Hero British Films Bring My Brown Pants Coming-of-Age Story Leave the Camera Running Made of Iron All There in the Script Noodle Incident The Alleged Car Expository Hairstyle Change Offscreen Moment of Awesome Mood Whiplash Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality The Cameo Brick Joke Rasputinian Death Retirony Here We Go Again! Does This Remind You of Anything? Big "NO!" Properly Paranoid Refuge in Audacity Alpha Bitch Adult Fear The Ghost Bald of Evil It Can Think Badass Normal Cool Guns Moment Killer Eldritch Abomination Intrepid Reporter Artistic License – History Big-Bad Ensemble Deliberately Monochrome Silent Movie Training Montage Death Seeker It Will Never Catch On Gold Digger Meaningful Background Event Action Genre Eyepatch of Power Psycho for Hire Nice Hat "Where Are They Now?" 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Left the Background Music On Deal with the Devil Plot Hole Psychopathic Manchild Lampshade Hanging My Greatest Failure Domestic Abuse And I Must Scream Dirty Coward The Faceless Downer Ending Conspicuous CG Yandere Author Avatar Big Fancy House Fish out of Water Heroic BSoD Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Match Cut Evil vs. Evil It's All About Me Does Not Like Shoes Australian Movies Anti-Villain Crazy Jealous Guy Disproportionate Retribution Anachronism Stew The Reveal Took a Level in Badass Pyrrhic Victory True Companions Even Evil Has Standards Foregone Conclusion Laughing Mad Ripped from the Headlines Historical-Domain Character Drowning My Sorrows Mystery and Detective Films Black Best Friend Recycled IN SPACE! 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Fainting Pretty Little Headshots Vampire Fiction Beard of Evil Eagleland Deconstruction Chase Scene La Résistance Red Right Hand Catch-Phrase Animal Motifs Bad "Bad Acting" Amoral Attorney Award-Bait Song Stalker with a Crush Establishing Character Moment I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Superhero Frame-Up Stealth Hi/Bye Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Arc Words Not Using the "Z" Word Tempting Fate Slasher Smile Composite Character Bond One-Liner The Remake Setting Update Creepy Child Broken Aesop Manipulative Bastard From Bad to Worse The Ditz Villain Song Disney Death Batman Gambit Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Dies Wide Open Mercy Kill Pragmatic Villainy Easily Forgiven Author Appeal Crapsack World Friend to All Children The Brute Only Sane Man Mama Bear The Lost Lenore Really Gets Around Ambiguous Disorder Vacation Films Action Prologue Fingore Black and Gray Morality Heterosexual Life-Partners Stealth Pun Car Fu Be Careful What You Wish For Once More, with Clarity! 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Guy Roaring Rampage of Revenge Interrupted Suicide Curse Cut Short Time Skip Have a Gay Old Time In Name Only Everyone Has Standards Shoot the Shaggy Dog Femme Fatale I Did What I Had to Do Psychological Thriller BFG Villainous Breakdown Meet Cute Insane Troll Logic The Load Dull Surprise The Starscream Diabolus ex Machina Word of God Historical In-Joke Silence Is Golden From Nobody to Nightmare Those Two Guys Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome French Films Bottomless Magazines Honor Before Reason The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Black Comedy Rape 20 Minutes into the Future Evil Plan Deliberate Values Dissonance Punny Name Pet the Dog Fan Disservice Jerkass Has a Point Agony of the Feet Sadistic Choice Gratuitous English Christmas Movies Index Bait-and-Switch Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Fourth Date Marriage Leitmotif Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Logo Joke Kids Are Cruel Children Are Innocent Genre Throwback Gone Horribly Right Improbable Weapon User Grey and Gray Morality Red Shirt Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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