Tropescilloscope: The Musical

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