Tropescilloscope: Sports Stories

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