Tropescilloscope: Spiritual Successor

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