Tropescilloscope: The X of Y

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