Tropescilloscope: Sci-Fi Horror

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