Tropescilloscope: Slasher Movie

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