Tropescilloscope: Take a Third Option

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