Tropescilloscope: Take a Third Option

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