Tropescilloscope: Sequel Escalation

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