Tropescilloscope: The Film of the Book

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