Tropescilloscope: Spiritual Successor

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