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