Tropescilloscope: Russian Films

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