Tropescilloscope: Shown Their Work

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