Tropescilloscope: Stuff Blowing Up

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