Tropescilloscope: Sequel Escalation

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