Tropescilloscope: The Mole

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