Tropescilloscope: Slasher Movie

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