Tropescilloscope: Shown Their Work

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