Tropescilloscope: Sealed Evil in a Can

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