Tropescilloscope: Romantic Comedy

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