Tropescilloscope: Sequel Escalation

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