Tropescilloscope: Running Gag

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