Tropescilloscope: Silent Movie

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