Tropescilloscope: Romantic Comedy

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