Tropescilloscope: Sci-Fi Horror

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