Tropescilloscope: Sports Stories

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