Tropescilloscope: Shown Their Work

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