Tropescilloscope: Russian Films

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