Tropescilloscope: Stuff Blowing Up

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