Tropescilloscope: Stuff Blowing Up

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