Tropescilloscope: Sports Stories

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