Tropescilloscope: The Mole

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