Tropescilloscope: Sequel Escalation

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