Tropescilloscope: The Film of the Book

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