Tropescilloscope: Rule of Three

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