Tropescilloscope: The Mole

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