Tropescilloscope: The Ace

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