Tropescilloscope: The Ace

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