Tropescilloscope: Sealed Evil in a Can

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