Tropescilloscope: Running Gag

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