Tropescilloscope: Sequel Escalation

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