Tropescilloscope: The Ace

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