Tropescilloscope: Silent Movie

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