Tropescilloscope: Stuff Blowing Up

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