Tropescilloscope: The Mafia

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

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Tagline The Chick A Father to His Men Offscreen Moment of Awesome Humans Are Bastards You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Together in Death My Beloved Smother Those Two Bad Guys Creepy Child Chase Scene Never Found the Body Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold All Just a Dream Action Genre Only One Name Even Evil Has Loved Ones Ominous Latin Chanting Dark Reprise In Name Only Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Would Hurt a Child Stuff Blowing Up Genre Savvy The Reveal Fanservice She's Got Legs Ripped from the Headlines Non-Indicative Name Belligerent Sexual Tension French Films Pyrrhic Victory My God, What Have I Done? Pet the Dog Laughing Mad Freeze-Frame Bonus Romantic False Lead Red Oni, Blue Oni Let's Get Dangerous! 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Is a Crapshoot Manipulative Bastard Meaningful Name Blood from the Mouth Film Noir Index Italian Films Enemy Mine Yandere Dark Is Not Evil Spanner in the Works Jerk Jock Action Survivor Artistic License – Biology Grievous Bottley Harm Meet Cute Same Language Dub Face Death with Dignity Serious Business Monumental Damage Karmic Death Manchild B-Movie Sequel Hook All for Nothing Our Vampires Are Different Eiffel Tower Effect Bolivian Army Ending Animated Credits Opening Throwing Your Sword Always Works One-Word Title Big Applesauce The Casanova Sacrificial Lion Captain Ersatz Rule of Symbolism Deal with the Devil No OSHA Compliance Revenge Love Triangle Evil Plan Dull Surprise Sports Stories Not So Stoic Market-Based Title Mystery and Detective Films Rule of Three Hero Antagonist Overprotective Dad Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Downer Ending Vampire Fiction Hate Sink Dying Moment of Awesome Television Movie Index Pragmatic Adaptation Evil Brit Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas The Smurfette Principle Dies Wide Open Ship Tease Double-Meaning Title The Cavalry Establishing Character Moment Depraved Bisexual Covers Always Lie Green-Eyed Monster Kick the Dog Developing Doomed Characters The Un-Reveal Logo Joke Does Not Like Shoes Evil Sounds Deep Adaptation Name Change Thriller Auto Erotica Cool Old Lady Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Instant Death Bullet Training Montage Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Meaningful Background Event Pay Evil unto Evil The Bully Asshole Victim Fun with Acronyms The Atoner Evil vs. Evil Insult Backfire Only Known by Their Nickname Moment Killer Hollywood Law Spared by the Adaptation Adapted Out The Remake Sexy Discretion Shot Sealed Evil in a Can Actually Pretty Funny Getting Crap Past the Radar Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Jump Scare Crazy-Prepared What the Hell, Hero? Air-Vent Passageway Evil Is Hammy Half the Man He Used to Be Bloody Hilarious Nice Hat Deadpan Snarker Shoot the Shaggy Dog Four-Temperament Ensemble Celebrity Paradox Married to the Job Lampshade Hanging Truth in Television Index of Film Westerns Ghost Fiction The Brute No Ending Corpsing Determinator Shut Up, Hannibal! Reality Has No Subtitles Dutch Angle Cloudcuckoolander Unresolved Sexual Tension I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Sci-Fi Horror Loads and Loads of Characters Match Cut Wounded Gazelle Gambit Age Lift Never Trust a Trailer Character Development Pre-Mortem One-Liner Authority Equals Asskicking Science Fiction Films Rape as Drama Improbable Aiming Skills Death by Sex Demonic Possession Gilligan Cut Failed a Spot Check Guile Hero Once More, with Clarity! Be Careful What You Wish For Wham Shot Nice Guy O.O.C. Is Serious Business Cold-Blooded Torture Abhorrent Admirer Central Theme Guns Akimbo Freudian Excuse Empathic Environment Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Extreme Doormat Disproportionate Retribution Token Minority Coming-of-Age Story Chekhov's Skill Animal Motifs Mind Screw Totally Radical Refuge in Audacity Bi the Way Affably Evil Idiot Ball Those Wacky Nazis Casting Gag Visual Pun Eye Scream It Will Never Catch On Creator Cameo Danny Peary Cult Movies List Police are Useless Double Entendre Hong Kong Films Scare Chord Biopic Novelization Fanservice Extra Christmas Movies Index Retired Badass The Bad Guy Wins Toplessness from the Back Adaptation Dye-Job Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil The Faceless Man on Fire Villain with Good Publicity Artistic License – Physics Alas, Poor Villain Noodle Incident Decoy Protagonist "Well Done, Son!" 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They Really Do Love Each Other Adorkable The Ditz Fire-Forged Friends And the Adventure Continues 20 Minutes into the Future Adaptational Attractiveness Naked People Are Funny Male Frontal Nudity The Starscream Bond One-Liner Improbable Weapon User Back from the Dead Public Domain Feature Films Properly Paranoid Cain and Abel Death Glare Left the Background Music On Rasputinian Death timeperiod Even Evil Has Standards Vitriolic Best Buds Kill It with Fire Catapult Nightmare Redemption Equals Death Jitter Cam Framing Device Big-Bad Ensemble Australian Movies Crazy Jealous Guy Credits Gag Mr. Exposition Soft Glass The Cameo Rated M for Manly Early-Bird Cameo Product Placement Earn Your Happy Ending Playing Gertrude Not So Different Historical In-Joke Ambiguously Gay In the Back Black Comedy Rape Flashback Annoying Younger Sibling Chewing the Scenery NO INDOOR VOICE Hollywood Darkness Drugs Are Bad Sassy Black Woman Narrator There Is No Kill Like Overkill The Smart Guy Recycled IN SPACE! World of Ham The '50s It's Personal Smoking Is Cool Bunny-Ears Lawyer Mighty Whitey Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Epilogue Handicapped Badass Super Strength Destination Defenestration Malevolent Masked Men Shirtless Scene Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Very Loosely Based on a True Story Continuity Nod Gender Flip Military and Warfare Films Brutal Honesty Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality The Hero Dies Captain Obvious Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Curb-Stomp Battle Disappeared Dad Cowboy Cop What You Are in the Dark Alliterative Name One Steve Limit Cool Shades A Minor Kidroduction Pretty in Mink Eyepatch of Power Accidental Misnaming Gone Horribly Right No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Laser-Guided Karma Bound and Gagged Real Life Writes the Plot Big Eater Storming the Castle Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Dressing as the Enemy Agony of the Feet Drives Like Crazy Cool Guns Taking You with Me Romantic Comedy Made of Iron What Happened to the Mouse? Costume Porn Major Injury Underreaction The Lancer No Antagonist Badass in a Nice Suit Manic Pixie Dream Girl Shipper on Deck Face–Heel Turn Anti-Villain Reality Ensues Unreliable Narrator Scenery Gorn How We Got Here Arch-Enemy BFG "Awesome McCool" Name Homage Mundane Made Awesome Villainous Breakdown Made of Explodium Honor Before Reason Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Naïve Newcomer Line-of-Sight Name Sanity Slippage Adaptational Heroism Never My Fault All Men Are Perverts The Stoner The Chessmaster Artistic License – Gun Safety Hair-Trigger Temper Leave the Camera Running The Dreaded Stylistic Suck Serial Killer Interrupted Suicide The Film of the Book The Mole Bad Boss Kubrick Stare Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Riddle for the Ages Ass Shove No-Sell Adults Are Useless Hero of Another Story Mad Scientist Have a Gay Old Time Your Cheating Heart Only a Flesh Wound Real Life Precision F-Strike The Dog Bites Back Fantasy Films Documentary Self-Deprecation Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Neck Snap Those Two Guys Deliberately Monochrome Brother–Sister Incest Fat Bastard Stalker with a Crush Gory Discretion Shot Genre Shift Genre Throwback Gorn Drowning My Sorrows Determinator aka: The Determinator Mama Bear folderlabel Everyone Has Standards Historical-Domain Character And Starring