Tropescilloscope: Sci-Fi Horror

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