Tropescilloscope: Science Fiction Films

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