Tropescilloscope: Slasher Movie

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