Tropescilloscope: The Mole

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