Tropescilloscope: Silent Movie

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