Tropescilloscope: Sealed Evil in a Can

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