Tropescilloscope: Running Gag

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