Tropescilloscope: Spiritual Successor

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