Tropescilloscope: The Mole

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