Tropescilloscope: Russian Films

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