Tropescilloscope: Slasher Movie

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More Tropes Calling the Old Man Out Batman Gambit Brick Joke Be Careful What You Wish For Fantasy Films Anguished Declaration of Love Scenery Porn Adorkable Bare Your Midriff The '80s Adaptational Badass Translation Convention Ironic Echo Does This Remind You of Anything? My God, What Have I Done? All Men Are Perverts Tempting Fate "Well Done, Son!" 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Is a Crapshoot This Is Gonna Suck It Will Never Catch On Almost Kiss Humiliation Conga Sanity Slippage Rule of Cool The Ghost Kill 'em All Ripped from the Headlines Attempted Rape Ungrateful Bastard Protagonist Title Anyone Can Die Killed Mid-Sentence What You Are in the Dark Spanner in the Works Flashback Nice Hat Shower Scene Improbable Aiming Skills Artistic License – Military Shirtless Scene Stuff Blowing Up It's All About Me Due to the Dead Celebrity Paradox MacGuffin Dark and Troubled Past Laser-Guided Karma Boom, Headshot! Badass Longcoat Epic Fail Male Frontal Nudity Artistic License – Gun Safety Destination Defenestration Berserk Button Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Posthumous Character Grey and Gray Morality Hair-Trigger Temper Scenery Gorn Hope Spot timeperiod Ax-Crazy Leave the Camera Running Overly Long Gag Funny Background Event folderlabel Slasher Smile Sacrificial Lion Sexy Discretion Shot "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue "The Reason You Suck" Speech Music Stories Bolivian Army Ending More Dakka Casting Gag Too Dumb to Live Not So Different Not Even Bothering with the Accent Dirty Old Man Implacable Man Pragmatic Villainy Italian Films Beware the Nice Ones Crucified Hero Shot Friend to All Children Super Strength Together in Death Soft Glass Arranged Marriage Wounded Gazelle Gambit Manic Pixie Dream Girl Curse Cut Short The Remake From Nobody to Nightmare Eye Scream In Name Only Ms. Fanservice Retired Badass Kick the Dog Sassy Black Woman Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Canadian Movies Even Evil Has Loved Ones Men Are the Expendable Gender Skewed Priorities Becoming the Mask The Cameo Mystery and Detective Films Stepford Smiler Science Fiction Films Let's Get Dangerous! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Poor Communication Kills Smug Snake Award-Bait Song As Himself Same Language Dub Groin Attack Hate Sink Insane Troll Logic Earn Your Happy Ending Mooks Vampire Fiction Redemption Equals Death Shown Their Work No Antagonist The Big Guy Artistic License – History Evil vs. Evil The Dog Bites Back Cool Old Guy Meaningful Name Obfuscating Stupidity Every Car Is a Pinto Rousing Speech Anachronism Stew Made of Iron Rule of Three Only a Flesh Wound Cloudcuckoolander Domestic Abuse Older Than They Look Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism The '60s The Power of Love Logo Joke Funny Foreigner Man on Fire Guile Hero Deliberate Values Dissonance Everyone Has Standards My Beloved Smother Riddle for the Ages Running Gag Gory Discretion Shot Blood from the Mouth The Un-Reveal Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Real Life Writes the Plot Catch-Phrase Alpha Bitch Double-Meaning Title Hypocritical Humor Evil-Detecting Dog Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Armor-Piercing Question Oh, Crap! Laughing Mad One-Man Army The Atoner Crazy Jealous Guy Adaptational Villainy Mighty Whitey Yandere Even Evil Has Standards Obviously Evil Foil Freeze-Frame Bonus Disney Death Large Ham Big Eater Sci-Fi Horror Famous Last Words Adults Are Useless The Mafia Redshirt Army Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Biopic Vomit Indiscretion Shot An Aesop Evil Sounds Deep The Ace Mood Whiplash Deus ex Machina Anachronic Order Very Loosely Based on a True Story Break the Cutie Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Heroes Want Redheads Light Is Not Good Death by Sex Our Zombies Are Different Zombie Stories Undying Loyalty Russian Films Woman in White Punny Name Reality Ensues Jump Scare Bad "Bad Acting" The Dreaded All for Nothing Mexican Standoff Smoking Is Cool Red Eyes, Take Warning Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Romantic False Lead Pragmatic Adaptation Papa Wolf The Mole An Arm and a Leg Rated M for Manly Line-of-Sight Name World of Ham Mad Scientist Scary Black Man Department of Redundancy Department All There in the Script Flipping the Bird Malevolent Masked Men Offscreen Moment of Awesome Pre-Mortem One-Liner Grievous Bottley Harm Re-Cut Heel–Face Turn Demoted to Extra Karma Houdini Informed Ability Serious Business Off-into-the-Distance Ending Badass Normal Auto Erotica Narrator Your Cheating Heart Bond One-Liner Peek-a-Boo Corpse Apocalypse How Heroic Sacrifice Author Appeal Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Leitmotif Black Best Friend Extremely Short Timespan Title Drop Determinator aka: The Determinator Have a Gay Old Time Dark Reprise Important Haircut Eiffel Tower Effect Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Card-Carrying Villain Worthy Opponent Nice Guy And I Must Scream Monumental Damage Back from the Dead All There in the Manual Irony Mercy Kill Badass in a Nice Suit Self-Deprecation Arch-Enemy Cluster F-Bomb Dramatic Irony Despair Event Horizon Cool Shades Trailers Always Spoil Darker and Edgier My Greatest Failure Overprotective Dad What the Hell, Hero? Neck Snap How We Got Here Vacation Films Gilligan Cut Decoy Protagonist Ascended Extra Wretched Hive No Ending Adaptation Distillation Big Damn Heroes Shout-Out Cain and Abel Parental Incest La Résistance Chewing the Scenery Pet the Dog It Can Think True Companions May–December Romance Cat Scare Death Seeker War Is Hell Chekhov's Gunman Femme Fatale The Film of the Book German Films Sealed Evil in a Can Spiritual Successor Obstructive Bureaucrat Heterosexual Life-Partners Noodle Incident Darkest Hour Shoot the Shaggy Dog Anti-Hero The Bad Guy Wins The Load The Reveal The Brute Does Not Like Shoes Easily Forgiven The '90s The Bully Random Events Plot Dying Moment of Awesome Continuity Nod Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Blood Knight Pre-Asskicking One-Liner NO INDOOR VOICE From Bad to Worse Green-Eyed Monster Thriller Shipper on Deck Handicapped Badass Dual Wielding Adaptational Heroism Sole Survivor Better to Die than Be Killed Works Set in World War II You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Token Minority Cold-Blooded Torture Unwitting Instigator of Doom Villain with Good Publicity Developing Doomed Characters Big "NO!" Sequel Escalation Only in It for the Money The Stinger O.O.C. Is Serious Business Bavarian Fire Drill Unusual Euphemism Actor Allusion Creepy Child 20 Minutes into the Future He Knows Too Much Suspiciously Specific Denial Deliberately Monochrome Black Comedy Rape The Dragon Make It Look Like an Accident Intrepid Reporter Eureka Moment Animal Motifs Big Bad Rich Bitch Central Theme Daylight Horror Bi the Way Faux Affably Evil Say My Name Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Rape as Drama Cool Old Lady Pretty in Mink Epic Movie "Shaggy Dog" Story Gorn Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Homage Frame-Up Asshole Victim Race Against the Clock Fourth Date Marriage Authority Equals Asskicking She Cleans Up Nicely Conspicuous CG Retirony Bland-Name Product Hoist by His Own Petard Empathic Environment Film Series Black and Gray Morality Broken Aesop Gratuitous English Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Room Full of Crazy Red Right Hand Those Wacky Nazis Death of a Child I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Ambiguously Gay Tap on the Head Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Spiteful Spit Bond Villain Stupidity There Is No Kill Like Overkill Love Triangle And Starring Heroic BSoD Betty and Veronica Historical-Domain Character The Stoner He Who Fights Monsters The Smurfette Principle Mistaken for Gay Evil Counterpart Dogged Nice Guy Stealth Pun Creator Cameo Taking the Bullet Face Death with Dignity Dark Action Girl The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Drowning My Sorrows Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Drugs Are Bad Chase Scene Arc Words Put on a Bus Word of God Genre Throwback Call-Forward Affectionate Parody Eagleland Fanservice Extra Deal with the Devil Drives Like Crazy Jerk Jock Cool Guns The Alleged Car Military and Warfare Films Did Not Get the Girl Psychopathic Manchild Determinator No Name Given No OSHA Compliance Disproportionate Retribution Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Chekhov's Gun Establishing Character Moment Crapsack World Daddy's Girl Sir Swears-a-Lot Exact Words No-Sell Pretty Little Headshots Action Prologue Would Hurt a Child Affably Evil Body Horror Eyepatch of Power Well-Intentioned Extremist Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Catapult Nightmare Age Lift Fire-Forged Friends Foreshadowing Show Within a Show Character Development Ambiguous Ending Those Two Guys Love at First Sight Visual Pun The Quiet One Romantic Comedy Actually Pretty Funny Truth in Television Jitter Cam It's Personal Jerkass Martial Arts Movie Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Beta Couple Early Installment Weirdness Double Entendre Imagine Spot Manly Tears Mama Bear Hypocrite Insult Backfire Intergenerational Friendship "Awesome McCool" Name Enemy Mine Reckless Gun Usage Fatal Flaw Exactly What It Says on the Tin Broken Pedestal Spell My Name with an "S" Dirty Cop Abhorrent Admirer Moment Killer Stock Footage Small Name, Big Ego Unreliable Narrator Belligerent Sexual Tension Evil Laugh B-Movie Framing Device Jerk with a Heart of Gold Brainless Beauty The Lancer What Happened to the Mouse? Genre Savvy Sports Stories Dropped a Bridge on Him Loophole Abuse Closed Circle Hollywood Darkness