Tropescilloscope: Star-Crossed Lovers

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

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