Tropescilloscope: The X of Y

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