Tropescilloscope: The Musical

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