Tropescilloscope: Sci-Fi Horror

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