Tropescilloscope: Shown Their Work

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