Tropescilloscope: The Film of the Book

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