Tropescilloscope: The Musical

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