Tropescilloscope: Russian Films

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