Tropescilloscope: Tempting Fate

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