Tropescilloscope: Science Fiction Films

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