Tropescilloscope: The Film of the Book

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