Tropescilloscope: The Ace

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