Tropescilloscope: Sci-Fi Horror

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