Tropescilloscope: Shown Their Work

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