Tropescilloscope: Shown Their Work

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