Tropescilloscope: The Reveal

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