Tropescilloscope: Spiritual Successor

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