Tropescilloscope: Russian Films

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