Tropescilloscope: Silent Movie

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