Tropescilloscope: Silent Movie

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