Tropescilloscope: Slasher Movie

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