Tropescilloscope: The Ace

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