Tropescilloscope: Running Gag

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