Tropescilloscope: Rule of Three

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