Tropescilloscope: The Dog Bites Back

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