Tropescilloscope: Setting Update

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