Tropescilloscope: Stuff Blowing Up

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