Tropescilloscope: Stuff Blowing Up

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