Tropescilloscope: The Power of Love

Love conquers all. Literally. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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