Tropescilloscope: Running Gag

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