Tropescilloscope: Running Gag

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