Tropescilloscope: Take a Third Option

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