Tropescilloscope: Silent Movie

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