Tropescilloscope: Sci-Fi Horror

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