Tropescilloscope: The Quiet One

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