Tropescilloscope: Silent Movie

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