Tropescilloscope: Science Fiction Films

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