Tropescilloscope: Spiritual Successor

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