Tropescilloscope: Stuff Blowing Up

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