Tropescilloscope: Star-Crossed Lovers

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

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