Tropescilloscope: The Mole

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