Tropescilloscope: The Film of the Book

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