Tropescilloscope: Running Gag

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