Tropescilloscope: The Mole

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