Tropescilloscope: Star-Crossed Lovers

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

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