Tropescilloscope: The Smart Guy

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