Tropescilloscope: Setting Update

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