Tropescilloscope: Room Full of Crazy

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