Tropescilloscope: Science Fiction Films

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