Tropescilloscope: The Stinger

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