Tropescilloscope: Sports Stories

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