Tropescilloscope: Slasher Movie

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