Tropescilloscope: Setting Update

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