Tropescilloscope: The Film of the Book

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