Tropescilloscope: Sci-Fi Horror

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