Tropescilloscope: The Mole

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