Tropescilloscope: Star-Crossed Lovers

Lovers doomed to be kept apart. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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