Tropescilloscope: Spiritual Successor

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