Tropescilloscope: The Ace

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