Tropescilloscope: Running Gag

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