Tropescilloscope: Slasher Movie

nan (read more at tvtropes.org)

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