Tropescilloscope: Silent Movie

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