Tropescilloscope: Straight Gay

A gay male with no stereotypical gay traits or mannerisms. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Light Is Not Good She Cleans Up Nicely Would Hit a Girl Heel Realization Roaring Rampage of Revenge Eyepatch of Power Dissonant Serenity World of Ham Blatant Lies Fanservice Dutch Angle Chiaroscuro Red Herring Mercy Kill Redemption Equals Death The '60s Did Not Get the Girl Broken Bird Pimped-Out Dress Anachronism Stew Very Loosely Based on a True Story Tagline Morality Pet Knife Nut Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Determinator aka: The Determinator Leave the Camera Running Visual Pun Brutal Honesty Overprotective Dad You Have Failed Me Accidental Murder Leaning on the Fourth Wall Rated M for Manly Those Wacky Nazis The Voiceless Gone Horribly Right Cat Fight Shown Their Work The Reveal Canon Foreigner Film Series Department of Redundancy Department Title Drop Beauty Is Never Tarnished Romantic False Lead Freudian Excuse Older Than They Look No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Alpha Bitch Well-Intentioned Extremist Handicapped Badass Disappeared Dad Needs Wiki Magic Love Pay Evil unto Evil Evil-Detecting Dog Made of Iron Defiant to the End Face Death with Dignity Chase Scene Greater-Scope Villain Darkest Hour Love at First Sight Ms. Fanservice Foil Race Against the Clock Fingore Deadpan Snarker Informed Ability Recycled IN SPACE! 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Plot Hole Dark Action Girl The Atoner Loophole Abuse Man on Fire Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Five-Man Band War Is Hell Sole Survivor Disguised in Drag A Date with Rosie Palms Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking The Dragon He Who Fights Monsters Dull Surprise Creative Closing Credits Killed Mid-Sentence Creator Cameo Even Evil Has Loved Ones Big Applesauce Manipulative Bastard Action Prologue Dramatic Gun Cock Retcon Kids Are Cruel Disney Death Captain Obvious Agony of the Feet The Bad Guy Wins Artistic License – Geography Big-Bad Ensemble Those Two Bad Guys Tempting Fate Obstructive Bureaucrat Rule of Symbolism Double-Meaning Title Ambiguously Gay Pre-Mortem One-Liner Fake Shemp Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Zombie Stories Woman Scorned Self-Deprecation MacGuffin Never Trust a Trailer Reality Is Unrealistic Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Jitter Cam Eye Scream Bottomless Magazines Big Fancy House Age Lift Exactly What It Says on the Tin Meet Cute The Lancer Grey and Gray Morality Crazy Jealous Guy Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Villain Protagonist Slap-Slap-Kiss Foregone Conclusion Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Parental Abandonment Historical Villain Upgrade Sinister Minister Flipping the Bird For the Evulz The '70s Due to the Dead B-Movie Frame-Up Parental Incest Developing Doomed Characters Mythology Gag Bad "Bad Acting" I'm a Humanitarian Adaptation Dye-Job One Steve Limit No Name Given The '50s Hero Antagonist Beta Couple Left the Background Music On Protagonist Title Meaningful Name Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Darker and Edgier Diabolus ex Machina Cowboy Cop Domestic Abuse Kubrick Stare Index of Film Westerns The Ghost Missing Mom Faux Affably Evil Never Found the Body Ripped from the Headlines Demoted to Extra Didn't Think This Through Posthumous Character Offscreen Teleportation Logo Joke Flashback Idiot Ball German Films Token Minority The Great Depression Drill Sergeant Nasty Villain Song Big Eater BFG Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Improvised Weapon Fatal Family Photo Biopic In the Back The Faceless Call-Forward Green-Eyed Monster timeperiod Hidden Depths Better to Die than Be Killed And the Adventure Continues Reality Ensues Death by Sex Music Stories Spared by the Adaptation Serious Business Psychological Thriller Politically Incorrect Villain Take a Third Option Unspoken Plan Guarantee Expository Hairstyle Change Wounded Gazelle Gambit Adorkable Double Entendre Bavarian Fire Drill Laser-Guided Karma Pyrrhic Victory Novelization Advertised Extra Red Eyes, Take Warning Thriller No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Eiffel Tower Effect The Film of the Book The Ace Naked People Are Funny Implacable Man One-Word Title Evil Plan Ship Tease Science Fiction Films Only in It for the Money Dramedy "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Mood Whiplash Gilligan Cut Badass Boast A God Am I Daddy's Girl Let's Get Dangerous! Imagine Spot Rule of Three Real Life Only a Flesh Wound Jerk with a Heart of Gold Unreliable Narrator Does Not Like Shoes Slashed Throat Comically Missing the Point Skewed Priorities Antagonist Title Breaking the Fourth Wall "Shaggy Dog" Story Dying Moment of Awesome No OSHA Compliance Destination Defenestration Author Avatar It's Personal Does This Remind You of Anything? Decoy Protagonist Match Cut Rewatch Bonus Not What It Looks Like Only One Name Badass in a Nice Suit Scenery Porn Dark and Troubled Past Mugging the Monster The End... Or Is It? Affectionate Parody A.I. Is a Crapshoot Male Gaze Get Out! All Girls Want Bad Boys Redshirt Army Getting Crap Past the Radar Wham Line Coming-of-Age Story Abusive Parents Soft Glass Monumental Damage He Knows Too Much Gold Digger Hypocrite Translation Convention Spanner in the Works Ironic Echo Bittersweet Ending Film Noir Index Famous Last Words Black Comedy Deconstruction Not Using the "Z" Word Establishing Character Moment Badass Normal Evil Is Petty Camp Gay Facial Horror A Minor Kidroduction No Antagonist Animal Motifs Once More, with Clarity! 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My Beloved Smother Police are Useless Anguished Declaration of Love Madness Mantra Affably Evil Cool Shades Final Girl Exact Words Woman in White Arc Words Sports Stories Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Suspiciously Specific Denial Took a Level in Badass Big Bad Duumvirate Meaningful Echo Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Nice Guy Spiteful Spit Stepford Smiler Video Credits Fainting Line-of-Sight Name Outrun the Fireball Disney Villain Death Off-into-the-Distance Ending Crucified Hero Shot Break the Cutie Storming the Castle Arranged Marriage Shower Scene Ambiguous Ending It Will Never Catch On Public Domain Feature Films Red Shirt Fun with Acronyms Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Butt-Monkey As You Know The Stinger Author Appeal Expy Conspicuous CG Not So Above It All Evil Brit Chewing the Scenery Sir Swears-a-Lot Jump Scare Big "NO!" The Stoner Epic Fail Product Placement Rule of Funny Camera Abuse Major Injury Underreaction Stuff Blowing Up Gratuitous English Improbable Weapon User Neck Snap Manic Pixie Dream Girl Rasputinian Death Sassy Black Woman Bland-Name Product Parental Neglect Dwindling Party Horror Films Adaptation Expansion Character Development Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Berserk Button Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Catapult Nightmare Bond Villain Stupidity In Name Only Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! The Cavalry Badass Grandpa Ascended Extra Sacrificial Lion Black Best Friend Contrived Coincidence Crapsack World Trailers Always Spoil Distracted by the Sexy Those Two Guys Dumb Blonde Not So Different Sanity Slippage Ambiguous Disorder Gorn As Long as It Sounds Foreign Blackmail Irony Hoist by His Own Petard You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Super Strength Training Montage Reasonable Authority Figure Insult Backfire Jerkass Has a Point Retired Badass Unusual Euphemism Fiery Redhead Femme Fatale Red Right Hand Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Bi the Way The '80s The Un-Reveal "Well Done, Son!" Guy Chekhov's Gunman Rich Bitch The Cameo Wham Shot Cool Old Guy Not Quite Dead Reckless Gun Usage Deliberately Monochrome Country Matters Cruel and Unusual Death Scary Black Man Grievous Bottley Harm Blood Knight Vitriolic Best Buds Freeze-Frame Bonus Homage Undying Loyalty Shoot the Shaggy Dog Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Manly Tears La Résistance Wretched Hive Loads and Loads of Characters Genre Shift Pragmatic Adaptation Becoming the Mask Taking the Bullet Card-Carrying Villain Intrepid Reporter I Did What I Had to Do Dramatic Irony Good Is Not Nice Car Fu Boom, Headshot! Half the Man He Used to Be Documentary Yandere Maybe Ever After Foreshadowing The Load Accidental Misnaming Word of God Faking the Dead Gender Flip Historical Hero Upgrade Death Glare Fatal Flaw Hooker with a Heart of Gold Villain Ball Fate Worse than Death Nothing Is Scarier Shell-Shocked Veteran Mooks All Just a Dream The Remake Wrong Genre Savvy Bound and Gagged Sadistic Choice The Power of Love Fourth Date Marriage Amusing Injuries Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Put on a Bus Your Head A-Splode Earn Your Happy Ending Take That! Deus ex Machina Jerkass Adults Are Useless Unresolved Sexual Tension Fantasy Films '80s Hair Fish out of Water Adapted Out Chekhov's Gun Cain and Abel Lighter and Softer Karmic Death The Chessmaster Actor Allusion The Alcoholic Guns Akimbo Daylight Horror Vomit Discretion Shot From Nobody to Nightmare Dirty Coward Empathic Environment Knight Templar Stealth Hi/Bye Covers Always Lie Evil Laugh Heel–Face Turn Bald of Evil Small Name, Big Ego Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Air-Vent Passageway Babies Ever After The Lost Lenore Twist Ending Dual Wielding Animated Credits Opening Adult Fear From Bad to Worse The Dreaded Immune to Bullets Made of Explodium Really Gets Around Refuge in Audacity Curb-Stomp Battle Award-Bait Song Canadian Movies Show Within a Show The X of Y Failed a Spot Check Damsel in Distress Call-Back Intergenerational Friendship Vomit Indiscretion Shot Slasher Smile Annoying Younger Sibling Early Installment Weirdness Authority Equals Asskicking Dark Is Not Evil Military and Warfare Films The Vamp Malevolent Masked Men Curse Cut Short The Musical Celebrity Paradox Adaptation Name Change Superhero Our Vampires Are Different "Awesome McCool" Name Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies For Want of a Nail Central Theme Dirty Old Man Beware the Nice Ones Honor Before Reason True Companions The Place Wicked Cultured Taking You with Me Tranquil Fury Australian Movies Manchild Christmas Movies Index Adaptation Distillation Throwing Your Sword Always Works What Happened to the Mouse? Creepy Child Large Ham Enemy Mine Shout-Out I Need a Freaking Drink Calling the Old Man Out Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Asshole Victim Narrator Heroic BSoD May–December Romance Setting Update Brother–Sister Incest Fanservice Extra Disproportionate Retribution Bad Boss Actually Pretty Funny Punch-Clock Villain Mexican Standoff Playing Gertrude Toplessness from the Back Spiritual Successor Off with His Head! Jerk Jock Race Lift Same Language Dub Hate Sink The Mole It's All About Me Happily Married Noodle Incident Paper-Thin Disguise Hollywood Darkness Determinator Amoral Attorney Only Sane Man Villainous Breakdown Unwitting Instigator of Doom Badass Bookworm Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Insane Troll Logic Alliterative Name Black and Gray Morality Children Are Innocent N-Word Privileges Bloodless Carnage The Brute Revenge Cold-Blooded Torture More Dakka Papa Wolf A Father to His Men Silence Is Golden Danny Peary Cult Movies List Anti-Villain All for Nothing Corrupt Corporate Executive Nice Hat Even Evil Has Standards No Celebrities Were Harmed Russian Films What the Hell, Hero? 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