Tropescilloscope: Russian Films

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