Tropescilloscope: Rule of Three

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