Tropescilloscope: The Ace

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