Tropescilloscope: The Stinger

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