Tropescilloscope: Sequel Escalation

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