Tropescilloscope: Sports Stories

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