Tropescilloscope: The Stinger

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