Tropescilloscope: Star-Crossed Lovers

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

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