Tropescilloscope: Spiritual Successor

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