Tropescilloscope: The Stoner

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

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Didn't Think This Through Mama Bear Scenery Porn N-Word Privileges Early Installment Weirdness Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping B-Movie Video Credits Almost Kiss Spell My Name with an "S" I'm a Humanitarian Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Pet the Dog Logo Joke You Have Failed Me Deal with the Devil Dark Reprise Annoying Younger Sibling "Awesome McCool" Name Face–Heel Turn Chase Scene Stepford Smiler Tranquil Fury Dropped a Bridge on Him Only One Name Death Glare Left the Background Music On Mr. Exposition Darkest Hour Anachronic Order Groin Attack Artistic License – Biology Psycho for Hire Covers Always Lie Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Very Loosely Based on a True Story Hollywood Law Skewed Priorities Soft Glass He Knows Too Much Training Montage Heterosexual Life-Partners Vomit Indiscretion Shot I Have Your Wife Poor Communication Kills As Long as It Sounds Foreign Reckless Gun Usage No Antagonist Gold Digger Adorkable Henpecked Husband My God, What Have I Done? All There in the Manual Super Strength All for Nothing Hell Is That Noise Fan Disservice Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Character Development Paper-Thin Disguise Brainless Beauty Woman Scorned Did Not Get the Girl Celebrity Paradox Alpha Bitch Retired Badass The Stinger Film Noir Index Spanner in the Works Eyepatch of Power Big Bad Black Dude Dies First Faking the Dead Alliterative Name Double Entendre All Girls Want Bad Boys Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Shirtless Scene Take That! Black Comedy Rape Taking You with Me Bad Boss Superhero Lock and Load Montage It's Personal Parental Abandonment You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Creator Cameo Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Chekhov's Skill Gorn Aside Glance Bad "Bad Acting" Sci-Fi Horror Fate Worse than Death Race Against the Clock O.O.C. Is Serious Business Re-Cut Vacation Films Would Hit a Girl Obstructive Bureaucrat Becoming the Mask Spared by the Adaptation Evil Counterpart Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Obfuscating Stupidity Death Seeker Evil Sounds Deep Shell-Shocked Veteran Your Cheating Heart Corrupt Corporate Executive The '60s Dwindling Party Loophole Abuse Real Life Good Is Not Nice Instant Death Bullet Rule of Cool Never Trust a Trailer Earn Your Happy Ending Eye Scream Neck Lift Slasher Smile Karma Houdini Biopic Epic Movie Animated Credits Opening Imagine Spot Pragmatic Adaptation Dirty Old Man From Nobody to Nightmare Mood Whiplash The Power of Love Empathic Environment Slap-Slap-Kiss Jerkass Unresolved Sexual Tension Interrupted Suicide Refuge in Audacity Bring My Brown Pants Composite Character Disappeared Dad Deliberately Monochrome Badass Boast All Men Are Perverts Soundtrack Dissonance Revenge Mighty Whitey Mind Screw Irony Stuff Blowing Up Improbable Aiming Skills Bowdlerise Heroes Want Redheads Cool Car Not So Stoic Psychopathic Manchild Once More, with Clarity! 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Guy Karmic Death Crapsack World Ax-Crazy Sir Swears-a-Lot Action Girl The Voiceless Silence Is Golden Actually Pretty Funny Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Heel–Face Turn Demonic Possession Drugs Are Bad Children Are Innocent Blood from the Mouth Not Using the "Z" Word Italian Films Captain Obvious Insistent Terminology MacGuffin Fish out of Water Belligerent Sexual Tension La Résistance The Big Guy Moment Killer Homage Antagonist Title Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Shout-Out Sanity Slippage Stealth Pun Bland-Name Product Would Hurt a Child Punny Name Zombie Stories Mistaken for Gay Here We Go Again! Nothing Is Scarier Happily Married Public Domain Feature Films Spiteful Spit Card-Carrying Villain Vitriolic Best Buds Took a Level in Badass Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Properly Paranoid Calling the Old Man Out Show Within a Show Redshirt Army Chekhov's Gunman The Hero Abusive Parents Bond Villain Stupidity Room Full of Crazy Sexy Discretion Shot Dumb Blonde Neck Snap Not Even Bothering with the Accent Foregone Conclusion Hypocritical Humor Martial Arts Movie Disguised in Drag Stock Footage Sequel Escalation Same Language Dub Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Ms. Fanservice Fanservice Worthy Opponent Facial Horror Red Shirt "The Reason You Suck" Speech Awesome, but Impractical Serial Killer Bait-and-Switch Mythology Gag The Ace Evil Laugh Mexican Standoff Does This Remind You of Anything? Department of Redundancy Department Punch-Clock Villain Crazy-Prepared Disney Death Brick Joke Lampshade Hanging Visual Pun Woman in White Rape as Drama Wham Line Kick the Dog As Himself Determinator aka: The Determinator Dressing as the Enemy Dogged Nice Guy Scenery Gorn Maybe Ever After Unreliable Narrator Final Girl An Arm and a Leg Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Action Genre Russian Films A Minor Kidroduction Dirty Cop You Killed My Father Fantastic Racism I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Intrepid Reporter One-Word Title Affectionate Parody Truth in Television Psychological Thriller The X of Y One-Man Army Fun with Acronyms Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold The Starscream Jitter Cam Slashed Throat Obviously Evil Gratuitous English Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Adaptational Attractiveness Take a Third Option Thriller Nice Hat It Can Think Break the Cutie Morality Pet Manly Tears One Steve Limit Horror Comedy Ambiguous Disorder Major Injury Underreaction Costume Porn Race Lift Failed a Spot Check Made of Iron Parental Neglect Action Prologue Naked People Are Funny Be Careful What You Wish For She's Got Legs Comically Missing the Point Faux Affably Evil Loads and Loads of Characters Toplessness from the Back Villain Song The Faceless Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Product Placement Match Cut Fantasy Films Names to Run Away from Really Fast Half the Man He Used to Be Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Bury Your Gays Papa Wolf Evil-Detecting Dog Politically Incorrect Villain Man on Fire Determinator Immune to Bullets Scare Chord The Chessmaster Batman Gambit Suspiciously Similar Substitute Off-into-the-Distance Ending Smug Snake Femme Fatale Brutal Honesty Sassy Black Woman Evil vs. Evil Genre Throwback Establishing Character Moment Cat Scare Fourth Date Marriage Defrosting Ice Queen Those Two Guys Canon Foreigner Unspoken Plan Guarantee Anguished Declaration of Love The Dragon Face Death with Dignity Car Fu Vomit Discretion Shot Darker and Edgier Hollywood Darkness Japanese Films Implacable Man Reality Ensues Berserk Button Bare Your Midriff Missing Mom Crucified Hero Shot Dirty Coward Sacrificial Lion Artistic License – Geography Fake Shemp Deconstruction Ironic Echo Precision F-Strike Despair Event Horizon The Stoner NO INDOOR VOICE Death of a Child And I Must Scream Knight Templar Throwing Your Sword Always Works A Date with Rosie Palms Conspicuous CG Arch-Enemy Artistic License – Military Armor-Piercing Question Ship Tease Never Found the Body Framing Device Dissonant Serenity Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Extreme Doormat Evil Is Hammy Cat Fight The Casanova The '70s The Ghost Vampire Fiction Bald of Evil Driven to Suicide Manic Pixie Dream Girl Romantic Comedy Wrong Genre Savvy War Is Hell Dies Wide Open British Films Curb-Stomp Battle Hooker with a Heart of Gold Random Events Plot In Medias Res After the End Exact Words What You Are in the Dark The Musical Friend to All Children Yandere Bloodier and Gorier Epic Fail Disney Villain Death Beware the Nice Ones Serious Business Ungrateful Bastard Better to Die than Be Killed An Aesop Bound and Gagged Never My Fault The '50s Bar Brawl May–December Romance Offscreen Moment of Awesome Malevolent Masked Men Fiery Redhead Well-Intentioned Extremist Roger Ebert: Great Movies List The Bully Ripped from the Headlines Mad Scientist Rule of Funny Mystery and Detective Films Early-Bird Cameo Distracted by the Sexy Unusual Euphemism Only Sane Man And Starring Running Gag Blood Knight Love Triangle Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Fanservice Extra Retirony German Films Call-Forward Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Hope Spot Ambiguous Ending Apocalypse How Evil Is Petty Easily Forgiven Documentary Parental Substitute Alas, Poor Villain Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Wretched Hive Offscreen Teleportation Actor Allusion Line-of-Sight Name Sequel Hook Fingore Off with His Head! World of Ham The Brute The '80s Animal Motifs Retcon In Name Only Important Haircut Sadistic Choice Reasonable Authority Figure The Cameo Adaptation Name Change No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Adapted Out Small Name, Big Ego No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Continuity Nod Break the Haughty What the Hell, Hero? Anti-Hero Heroic Sacrifice Last-Name Basis Wicked Cultured Self-Deprecation Knife Nut Gainax Ending Sole Survivor The Dreaded Based on a True Story Fainting Tap on the Head Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Aluminum Christmas Trees Cowboy Cop Greater-Scope Villain The Vamp Not Quite Dead As the Good Book Says... Freudian Excuse Villainous Breakdown Title Drop The Lost Lenore Artistic License – Law Eureka Moment Playing Gertrude French Films Suddenly SHOUTING! Daylight Horror Wham Shot Contrived Coincidence Grievous Bottley Harm Villain Ball Bloody Hilarious Leitmotif Drives Like Crazy Light Is Not Good Undying Loyalty Military and Warfare Films The Alcoholic Call-Back Horror Films Anyone Can Die Broken Pedestal Dark Is Not Evil Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Improbable Weapon User Author Appeal Translation Convention Chewing the Scenery Laughing Mad Dying Moment of Awesome Red Eyes, Take Warning She Cleans Up Nicely Everyone Has Standards Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane The Mole Police are Useless Enemy Mine A.I. Is a Crapshoot Book-Ends Country Matters Bilingual Bonus Eiffel Tower Effect Posthumous Character Hero of Another Story The Oner Only a Flesh Wound Ascended Extra For the Evulz My Greatest Failure Male Gaze Funny Foreigner Monumental Damage Asshole Victim Gilligan Cut Black Best Friend Death by Sex The Load Damsel in Distress Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Rule of Symbolism Arc Words "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Hong Kong Films Historical Villain Upgrade Red Right Hand Breaking the Fourth Wall Bi the Way Token Minority The Cavalry Time Skip The Un-Reveal True Companions Love at First Sight Hair-Trigger Temper Body Horror No-Sell Needs Wiki Magic Love Peek-a-Boo Corpse Meaningful Name Taking the Bullet Age Lift Dramatic Irony Dramatic Gun Cock Badass Bookworm Kids Are Cruel Downer Ending Not So Different Fire-Forged Friends Took a Level in Jerkass Narrator Cruel and Unusual Death Even Evil Has Loved Ones How We Got Here Tagline Outrun the Fireball Adults Are Useless Historical Hero Upgrade Handicapped Badass Does Not Like Shoes Not So Above It All Word of God Jerk Jock Stealth Hi/Bye Kubrick Stare Badass Normal Suspiciously Specific Denial Those Wacky Nazis Kill 'em All Mr. Fanservice Authority Equals Asskicking Tempting Fate Crazy Jealous Guy More Dakka Beta Couple Grey and Gray Morality Drill Sergeant Nasty Hero Antagonist Setting Update Brother–Sister Incest I Did What I Had to Do The Sociopath Big Eater Humiliation Conga Your Head A-Splode Shipper on Deck Works Set in World War II Put on a Bus Totally Radical Gone Horribly Right Flashback Curse Cut Short Cloudcuckoolander Ominous Latin Chanting Red Oni, Blue Oni Mundane Made Awesome Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Broken Bird Rewatch Bonus The '90s Television Movie Index Foil Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Older Than They Look Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other No Celebrities Were Harmed Our Zombies Are Different For Want of a Nail Big Damn Heroes Attempted Rape Four-Temperament Ensemble Made of Explodium Dutch Angle Getting Crap Past the Radar Bullying a Dragon Betty and Veronica Extremely Short Timespan Arranged Marriage Adaptation Distillation Accidental Murder Straight Gay Bottomless Magazines Pay Evil unto Evil Pre-Mortem One-Liner Bolivian Army Ending Mooks Cool Old Guy Together in Death Wounded Gazelle Gambit Rule of Three Recycled IN SPACE! Non-Indicative Name Dark and Troubled Past Roaring Rampage of Revenge Large Ham Double-Meaning Title Foreshadowing Hypocrite Pyrrhic Victory The Lancer Leaning on the Fourth Wall Film Noir Artistic License – Gun Safety Lighter and Softer Fatal Flaw It Will Never Catch On 20 Minutes into the Future Adaptational Badass A Father to His Men Big "NO!" Twist Ending Genre Shift Cassandra Truth No Ending Jerkass Has a Point Whole Plot Reference Sinister Minister Eagleland Amusing Injuries Expy Black and Gray Morality Bunny-Ears Lawyer Chekhov's Gun Babies Ever After Broken Aesop Shower Scene My Beloved Smother Adaptation Dye-Job