Tropescilloscope: Russian Films

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