Tropescilloscope: Shown Their Work

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