Tropescilloscope: Science Fiction Films

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