Tropescilloscope: Silent Movie

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