Tropescilloscope: The Dog Bites Back

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