Tropescilloscope: Star-Crossed Lovers

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

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