Tropescilloscope: Rule of Three

3 is a magic number. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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