Tropescilloscope: Russian Films

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