Tropescilloscope: Setting Update

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