Tropescilloscope: Sequel Escalation

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