Tropescilloscope: Running Gag

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