Tropescilloscope: The Mafia

Scary Italian and Sicilian criminals with a code of their own. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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