Tropescilloscope: The Film of the Book

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