Tropescilloscope: Sci-Fi Horror

nan (read more at tvtropes.org)

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