Tropescilloscope: Sci-Fi Horror

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