Tropescilloscope: The Stoner

The hipster guy who may or may not be smoking pot. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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