Tropescilloscope: Russian Films

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