Tropescilloscope: The Film of the Book

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