Tropescilloscope: Star-Crossed Lovers

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

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