Tropescilloscope: Shut Up, Hannibal!

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