Tropescilloscope: The Smart Guy

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