Tropescilloscope: Slasher Movie

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