Tropescilloscope: Science Fiction Films

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