Tropescilloscope: Science Fiction Films

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