Tropescilloscope: Spiritual Successor

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