Tropescilloscope: The Film of the Book

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