Tropescilloscope: Sci-Fi Horror

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