Tropescilloscope: Sports Stories

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