Tropescilloscope: The Musical

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