Tropescilloscope: Silent Movie

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