Tropescilloscope: The Mole

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