Tropescilloscope: Room Full of Crazy

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