Tropescilloscope: Spiritual Successor

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