Tropescilloscope: Tempting Fate

Don't say it—that's just asking for it. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Worthy Opponent Military and Warfare Films Darkest Hour Naïve Newcomer Names to Run Away from Really Fast In Medias Res Undying Loyalty Only One Name Did Not Get the Girl Adapted Out Big Fancy House The Ditz Wicked Cultured Cluster F-Bomb Translation Convention The Smurfette Principle Scenery Porn Small Name, Big Ego Overprotective Dad Only in It for the Money Meaningful Background Event Dies Wide Open Manchild Karmic Death Calling the Old Man Out Twist Ending Defiant to the End Kids Are Cruel Overly Long Gag From Nobody to Nightmare A Minor Kidroduction Brainless Beauty Token Minority Informed Ability Horror Films Bring My Brown Pants Evil Counterpart "Well Done, Son!" Guy Dissonant Serenity Intergenerational Friendship Men Are the Expendable Gender Catch-Phrase Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Boom, Headshot! Affably Evil Frame-Up Broken Pedestal Too Dumb to Live Distracted by the Sexy Character Development Mad Scientist Training Montage The Reveal Arch-Enemy Let's Get Dangerous! Fantastic Racism Posthumous Character Five-Man Band Drowning My Sorrows Show Within a Show Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Sassy Black Woman Black Comedy Shirtless Scene Noodle Incident Everyone Has Standards Evil Sounds Deep Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Motor Mouth The Load You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Greater-Scope Villain Combat Pragmatist Throwing Your Sword Always Works Stylistic Suck The Bully Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Yandere Award-Bait Song Central Theme Death by Irony Heroic BSoD Suddenly SHOUTING! I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Red Shirt Bloodier and Gorier Fatal Flaw Well-Intentioned Extremist Made of Explodium Scary Black Man Hollywood Darkness Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Artistic License – Biology Red Oni, Blue Oni Naked People Are Funny Video Credits Never Trust a Trailer Book-Ends Rule of Funny Parental Incest Heel Realization Death of a Child Psychopathic Manchild Stealth Pun Henpecked Husband Same Language Dub The Film of the Book Leave the Camera Running Stalker with a Crush Action Prologue Mama Bear Anti-Hero '80s Hair Serious Business An Arm and a Leg Rule of Cool Danny Peary Cult Movies List N-Word Privileges And I Must Scream Adults Are Useless Tap on the Head Neck Snap The Mafia Stuff Blowing Up Covers Always Lie Sinister Minister Sequel Hook Auto Erotica Spiritual Successor Bad Boss Bar Brawl Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality A Father to His Men Punch-Clock Villain Reality Is Unrealistic The Smart Guy Belligerent Sexual Tension Due to the Dead Four-Temperament Ensemble Spanner in the Works Parental Substitute Ass Shove Canadian Movies Bi the Way Ripped from the Headlines Interrupted Suicide Would Hurt a Child For the Evulz Meaningful Echo Unreliable Narrator Pyrrhic Victory Dumb Blonde Mistaken for Gay Lighter and Softer Blackmail Sequel Escalation Cool Car Deadpan Snarker Annoying Younger Sibling Curse Cut Short Genre Savvy Super Strength Papa Wolf Hate Sink Protagonist Title Final Girl Age Lift Mooks Would Hit a Girl Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane The Remake Black Best Friend Market-Based Title Unusual Euphemism Only Sane Man Historical In-Joke Works Set in World War II Setting Update Smoking Is Cool Animated Credits Opening Black Dude Dies First Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Monumental Damage The Starscream Offscreen Moment of Awesome The Quiet One Japanese Films Beard of Evil Madness Mantra Fourth Date Marriage Fainting Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? I Need a Freaking Drink Villain Ball Not So Different Bavarian Fire Drill Dropped a Bridge on Him Comically Missing the Point Implacable Man The Dog Bites Back Breaking the Fourth Wall Improbable Aiming Skills Awesome, but Impractical "Shaggy Dog" Story Loads and Loads of Characters Hooker with a Heart of Gold Break the Haughty Pre-Mortem One-Liner The Hero Dies Real Life Writes the Plot Reality Ensues Say My Name Even Evil Has Loved Ones Hell Is That Noise Roaring Rampage of Revenge Author Appeal Rape as Drama Vitriolic Best Buds Credits Gag 20 Minutes into the Future All for Nothing Badass Normal Oh, Crap! Ms. Fanservice Stepford Smiler Apocalypse How Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Properly Paranoid Christmas Movies Index Real Life Daylight Horror Hollywood Law The Musical Adaptational Villainy Peek-a-Boo Corpse I Did What I Had to Do Take That! 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Only a Flesh Wound Badass in a Nice Suit Adaptational Attractiveness Unusually Uninteresting Sight Put on a Bus Blood Knight Hypocrite Woman in White Animal Motifs Ironic Echo Our Zombies Are Different Deliberate Values Dissonance Rated M for Manly Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Coming-of-Age Story Morality Pet Fish out of Water French Films The '50s True Companions Obfuscating Stupidity The Dragon The Oner Adaptation Name Change British Films Knight Templar Plot Hole Your Head A-Splode Red Right Hand Totally Radical Mercy Kill Costume Porn Documentary She's Got Legs You Killed My Father Not So Stoic The Cameo Villainous Breakdown Dogged Nice Guy Bound and Gagged No Name Given Dramatic Gun Cock Stealth Hi/Bye Cold-Blooded Torture Artistic License – History Soundtrack Dissonance Batman Gambit The Chick Funny Background Event Fantasy Films Mugging the Monster Our Vampires Are Different Running Gag Adaptational Heroism Leitmotif Beauty Is Never Tarnished Bottomless Magazines The '90s 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Blatant Lies Corrupt Corporate Executive Groin Attack Berserk Button Maybe Ever After Chase Scene Room Full of Crazy The '60s Fanservice Dark and Troubled Past Big-Bad Ensemble Adaptation Distillation Dirty Cop Double-Meaning Title Suspiciously Similar Substitute Irony The End... Or Is It? A God Am I Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Face–Heel Turn Cool Guns Villain Protagonist What the Hell, Hero? Dark Reprise The Power of Love Betty and Veronica Action Girl Hong Kong Films May–December Romance Pay Evil unto Evil Victoria's Secret Compartment Stock Footage Broken Bird Sanity Slippage Dressing as the Enemy Important Haircut No OSHA Compliance Off with His Head! Rule of Three Took a Level in Jerkass Body Horror Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Ambiguous Ending It's Personal It Can Think Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Match Cut Cool Shades Politically Incorrect Villain Easily Forgiven Humans Are Bastards My God, What Have I Done? Really Gets Around Disguised in Drag Eye Scream All Girls Want Bad Boys Faking the Dead The Sociopath Defrosting Ice Queen Very Loosely Based on a True Story Early Installment Weirdness Retcon Friend to All Children Cruel and Unusual Death You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Gainax Ending Off-into-the-Distance Ending Killed Mid-Sentence Creator Cameo Eldritch Abomination For Want of a Nail Logo Joke Evil Is Hammy BFG Grey and Gray Morality Foreshadowing Mythology Gag Big Bad Duumvirate Mood Whiplash Love Triangle Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Rule of Symbolism The Brute Race Lift Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Femme Fatale Non-Indicative Name Jitter Cam Broken Aesop The Ace One Steve Limit Hero Antagonist World of Ham Gone Horribly Right Disney Villain Death Jerk Jock Whole Plot Reference Those Two Bad Guys Agony of the Feet Author Avatar Gold Digger As Long as It Sounds Foreign Guile Hero Fatal Family Photo Disappeared Dad Punny Name Instant Death Bullet Sole Survivor Not Quite Dead Insult Backfire Evil Is Petty Downer Ending Here We Go Again! folderlabel Anti-Villain Artistic License – Geography Vomit Indiscretion Shot Jump Scare Slap-Slap-Kiss German Films Freeze-Frame Bonus Becoming the Mask I'm a Humanitarian Bloody Hilarious Call-Back Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Those Wacky Nazis Car Fu Woman Scorned Sir Swears-a-Lot Kill 'em All Imagine Spot Italian Films Establishing Character Moment In Name Only Nothing Is Scarier Catapult Nightmare Rich Bitch Dull Surprise A.I. Is a Crapshoot No Celebrities Were Harmed Villain with Good Publicity It Will Never Catch On Camp Gay Flipping the Bird Scenery Gorn