Tropescilloscope: Sequel Escalation

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