Tropescilloscope: The Dog Bites Back

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