Tropescilloscope: Sports Stories

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