Tropescilloscope: Sci-Fi Horror

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