Tropescilloscope: Sports Stories

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