Tropescilloscope: Stuff Blowing Up

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