Tropescilloscope: The Musical

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