Tropescilloscope: Science Fiction Films

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