Tropescilloscope: Sports Stories

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