Tropescilloscope: Science Fiction Films

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