Tropescilloscope: The Chick

Socially adept female member of the Five-Man Band who mediates conflicts within the group. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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