Tropescilloscope: Running Gag

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