Tropescilloscope: Serious Business

Treating something more seriously than necessary. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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They Really Do Love Each Other Loads and Loads of Characters Hero of Another Story Brainless Beauty Yandere The Starscream Heel–Face Turn Fourth Date Marriage Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy The Great Depression An Axe to Grind Demonic Possession Parental Substitute Corrupt Corporate Executive Market-Based Title Curb-Stomp Battle Freeze-Frame Bonus Match Cut Anti-Villain Ambiguous Ending Ungrateful Bastard No Celebrities Were Harmed Cluster F-Bomb Insult Backfire Dropped a Bridge on Him Take a Third Option Call-Back Papa Wolf Dirty Cop Extreme Doormat folderlabel Cloudcuckoolander May–December Romance The Remake Adorkable Hong Kong Films Hair-Trigger Temper Jump Scare Almost Kiss Spared by the Adaptation Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Death by Sex Crucified Hero Shot Auto Erotica Smug Snake Heroes Want Redheads Badass in a Nice Suit Would Hurt a Child Narrator Sci-Fi Horror Greater-Scope Villain Not So Above It All Bittersweet Ending Sexy Discretion Shot Badass Boast Time Skip O.O.C. Is Serious Business Bland-Name Product No Name Given The Musical Random Events Plot Faking the Dead Race Against the Clock Epic Movie Film Series Sports Stories Rule of Three Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Sinister Minister Call-Forward Rich Bitch Crapsack World Broken Pedestal Punny Name Self-Deprecation Psychological Thriller Even Evil Has Standards Tap on the Head Broken Bird Precision F-Strike Catapult Nightmare You Killed My Father Knife Nut Chekhov's Gun Heterosexual Life-Partners Important Haircut Armor-Piercing Question Grievous Bottley Harm Gone Horribly Right Death Seeker Kick the Son of a Bitch Humans Are Bastards Foregone Conclusion Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Big Applesauce Beauty Is Never Tarnished Adults Are Useless The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Anachronic Order Badass Grandpa Cool Shades Informed Ability The Chessmaster Action Prologue Determinator "Where Are They Now?" 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Blackmail Real Life Writes the Plot Pyrrhic Victory Distracted by the Sexy In Medias Res Handicapped Badass The Stoner Stealth Hi/Bye Wham Shot Costume Porn Italian Films Arch-Enemy Only in It for the Money Face–Heel Turn Recycled IN SPACE! Kubrick Stare Vomit Indiscretion Shot The Brute Bloodless Carnage Adaptation Dye-Job Knight Templar Dramedy Slasher Movie Big Fancy House Adaptational Villainy Rule of Cool Genre Throwback Author Avatar Men Are the Expendable Gender Retcon Jerk with a Heart of Gold Put on a Bus Five-Man Band Driven to Suicide I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Not What It Looks Like Properly Paranoid Evil Is Hammy Overprotective Dad Exactly What It Says on the Tin Sadistic Choice Undying Loyalty How We Got Here Psychopathic Manchild Facial Horror "Shaggy Dog" Story Book-Ends Take That! 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Naïve Newcomer You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Evil Is Petty The Place Award-Bait Song Plucky Comic Relief Romantic False Lead Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Double-Meaning Title Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism For the Evulz Never My Fault Fantastic Racism Not Quite Dead Whole Plot Reference Expository Hairstyle Change I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Trailers Always Spoil Darker and Edgier Line-of-Sight Name Bait-and-Switch Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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