Tropescilloscope: Sealed Evil in a Can

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