Tropescilloscope: Spiritual Successor

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