Tropescilloscope: The X of Y

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More Tropes Artistic License – Law Department of Redundancy Department Italian Films A Minor Kidroduction The Lost Lenore Shoot the Shaggy Dog Bald of Evil From Nobody to Nightmare Fiery Redhead Posthumous Character Fan Disservice Not So Different Grey and Gray Morality La Résistance Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor The Dreaded Riddle for the Ages Antagonist Title The Starscream I'm a Humanitarian Artistic License – Physics Humiliation Conga Heroic BSoD Offscreen Teleportation Action Prologue The Cameo The Vamp Nothing Is Scarier After the End Fake Shemp Jitter Cam Distracted by the Sexy Ship Tease Butt-Monkey Pyrrhic Victory Big Brother Instinct Fatal Flaw Parental Incest My Beloved Smother Pay Evil unto Evil Japanese Films Eagleland Well-Intentioned Extremist Animated Credits Opening The Ditz Creator Cameo Shipper on Deck Blood from the Mouth Call-Back The Brute Psychological Thriller The Mole Biopic Unusually Uninteresting Sight Eldritch Abomination Dark Is Not Evil Dirty Old Man Bittersweet Ending Scenery Gorn Does Not Like Shoes Hypocrite The Bully Betty and Veronica Dirty Cop How We Got Here Those Two Bad Guys Pretty in Mink Cool Car Break the Cutie Plucky Comic Relief Very Loosely Based on a True Story Heel Realization Fish out of Water Australian Movies Anachronism Stew Made of Iron Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Offscreen Moment of Awesome Death Glare Black Comedy Rape Running Gag Unresolved Sexual Tension Deliberately Monochrome Bound and Gagged Big Fancy House Historical In-Joke Beard of Evil I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Determinator aka: The Determinator Dramatic Irony Peek-a-Boo Corpse Destination Defenestration Stealth Hi/Bye The Stinger Bi the Way French Films Love at First Sight Not Using the "Z" Word Took a Level in Badass Victoria's Secret Compartment Hero Antagonist Sacrificial Lion Woman in White Say My Name Real Life Writes the Plot Cassandra Truth Setting Update Disappeared Dad Dark and Troubled Past Karma Houdini Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Jerkass Has a Point Pet the Dog Disproportionate Retribution Cruel and Unusual Death Manly Tears Domestic Abuse Bland-Name Product Fingore The Ghost Ripped from the Headlines Manic Pixie Dream Girl Developing Doomed Characters Shower Scene Guns Akimbo Dressing as the Enemy Author Appeal Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Gory Discretion Shot Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Shell-Shocked Veteran Madness Mantra Villainous Breakdown Expository Hairstyle Change Stock Footage Everyone Has Standards Failed a Spot Check Hero of Another Story Corrupt Corporate Executive Even Evil Has Standards Annoying Younger Sibling Beta Couple Heroes Want Redheads I Have Your Wife Whole Plot Reference Left the Background Music On Time Skip Eureka Moment Stuff Blowing Up Names to Run Away from Really Fast Bowdlerise Psychopathic Manchild Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Title Drop Adorkable Asshole Victim Armor-Piercing Question Broken Pedestal Downer Ending Imagine Spot Badass Boast Wham Shot Wounded Gazelle Gambit Homage Enemy Mine Shut Up, Hannibal! Obstructive Bureaucrat Those Wacky Nazis Redshirt Army Improbable Aiming Skills Catch-Phrase Sanity Slippage Tap on the Head Nice Hat Heroic Sacrifice Skewed Priorities Sci-Fi Horror Pragmatic Adaptation Earn Your Happy Ending The Sociopath Anti-Villain Defrosting Ice Queen You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Playing Gertrude Famous Last Words Tagline Interrupted Suicide Neck Lift MacGuffin Small Name, Big Ego Bad "Bad Acting" Double Entendre Fainting Spanner in the Works 20 Minutes into the Future Attempted Rape Military and Warfare Films Arch-Enemy Artistic License – History Adaptational Badass Foil Hollywood Darkness Artistic License – Geography Demonic Possession Fantasy Films Affably Evil The Load Darker and Edgier Maybe Ever After "The Reason You Suck" Speech Visual Pun Mooks Cool Guns Spared by the Adaptation Brother–Sister Incest The Casanova Ominous Latin Chanting Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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Accidental Misnaming Good Is Not Nice Foreshadowing Costume Porn Fire-Forged Friends Bavarian Fire Drill Brainless Beauty Adapted Out I Did What I Had to Do Evil Laugh Amoral Attorney Character Development Too Dumb to Live For the Evulz Fate Worse than Death Anguished Declaration of Love Bury Your Gays Insistent Terminology The Big Guy Implacable Man Chekhov's Gun Breaking the Fourth Wall Unwitting Instigator of Doom Red Oni, Blue Oni Index of Film Westerns Faking the Dead Leitmotif Humans Are Bastards Foregone Conclusion Ghost Fiction Hollywood Law Chekhov's Skill Product Placement Older Than They Look One-Man Army Despair Event Horizon Sadistic Choice Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Dying Moment of Awesome Match Cut Camera Abuse Unreliable Narrator Evil Is Petty War Is Hell Chewing the Scenery Vacation Films Thriller Improbable Weapon User What the Hell, Hero? 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Re-Cut As the Good Book Says... Composite Character No Antagonist Our Zombies Are Different Captain Obvious "Where Are They Now?" 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Mr. Exposition Freeze-Frame Bonus Early-Bird Cameo Coming-of-Age Story No Celebrities Were Harmed Adaptation Expansion Precision F-Strike Super Strength Missing Mom Extreme Doormat Dwindling Party Dutch Angle Anachronic Order Genre Throwback Big "NO!" 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Tempting Fate Pimped-Out Dress Bunny-Ears Lawyer Epic Movie Chekhov's Gunman Jump Scare Totally Radical Laser-Guided Karma Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Mundane Made Awesome Kids Are Cruel Smug Snake The Faceless Deal with the Devil Did Not Get the Girl Fun with Acronyms Bait-and-Switch Bottomless Magazines A God Am I Word of God Villain Song Reality Has No Subtitles Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Does This Remind You of Anything? Agony of the Feet Overprotective Dad Auto Erotica Malevolent Masked Men Gorn Pretty Little Headshots Evil-Detecting Dog Ambiguous Ending Guile Hero Dogged Nice Guy German Films Politically Incorrect Villain Noodle Incident Bring My Brown Pants Driven to Suicide Instant Death Bullet Oh, Crap! Male Gaze Get Out! Wretched Hive Film Noir Retirony Television Movie Index Catapult Nightmare You Killed My Father Light Is Not Good Superhero Recycled IN SPACE! Shirtless Scene Damsel in Distress Shout-Out Ambiguous Disorder Alliterative Name Blackmail Soundtrack Dissonance Death by Adaptation All Girls Want Bad Boys Authority Equals Asskicking Mama Bear No OSHA Compliance Defiant to the End Big Bad Overly Long Gag Married to the Job Evil Cannot Comprehend Good The '90s NO INDOOR VOICE Covers Always Lie Historical-Domain Character Villain Ball The Stoner Corpsing Off-into-the-Distance Ending Slasher Movie Silence Is Golden Mythology Gag O.O.C. Is Serious Business Happily Married '80s Hair Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Trailers Always Spoil Adults Are Useless Adaptational Heroism Badass in a Nice Suit Have a Gay Old Time Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Informed Ability Punch-Clock Villain Adaptation Dye-Job From Bad to Worse Fanservice Extra Animal Title Index Evil Sounds Deep Crazy-Prepared Karmic Death Deconstruction Eye Scream Rule of Symbolism Red Shirt Narrator Monumental Damage Not So Stoic Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Or Is It? Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Intrepid Reporter Sir Swears-a-Lot There Is No Kill Like Overkill Action Girl For Want of a Nail Stalker with a Crush Psycho for Hire Sealed Evil in a Can Ungrateful Bastard Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Insane Troll Logic Establishing Character Moment Never Trust a Trailer Revenge Bond Villain Stupidity Actor Allusion My Greatest Failure I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun The Ace Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Hope Spot Mind Screw The Reveal Blatant Lies Red Eyes, Take Warning "Shaggy Dog" Story Rape as Drama The Great Depression Red Herring Combat Pragmatist An Arm and a Leg Red Right Hand Comically Missing the Point Drugs Are Bad Flipping the Bird Cloudcuckoolander The Alleged Car Your Head A-Splode Slashed Throat Mr. Fanservice Dirty Coward Easily Forgiven Manipulative Bastard Ms. Fanservice Chase Scene Would Hit a Girl Take a Third Option The Quiet One Vitriolic Best Buds Silent Movie Jerkass The Atoner Protagonist Title Suddenly SHOUTING! Spiteful Spit Artistic License – Gun Safety Loads and Loads of Characters Empathic Environment Rasputinian Death Tranquil Fury Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Epic Fail Papa Wolf Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Framing Device Pragmatic Villainy As Long as It Sounds Foreign Only Known by Their Nickname Let's Get Dangerous! Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Children Are Innocent Chuck Cunningham Syndrome A.I. Is a Crapshoot Daylight Horror Rule of Cool Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Video Credits Works Set in World War II Novelization Apocalypse How It's Personal Freudian Excuse "Well Done, Son!" Guy Cat Fight Intergenerational Friendship Parental Substitute Chiaroscuro Determinator Real Life The '50s Honor Before Reason The Smurfette Principle Eiffel Tower Effect The Un-Reveal Demoted to Extra Curse Cut Short Cat Scare He Knows Too Much Hypocritical Humor Line-of-Sight Name The Musical Cowboy Cop Not Even Bothering with the Accent Nice Guy Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Heterosexual Life-Partners Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Serious Business Darkest Hour Bad Boss Dramatic Gun Cock Fourth Date Marriage Mad Scientist Outrun the Fireball Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Artistic License – Military Card-Carrying Villain Gold Digger Celebrity Paradox Big-Bad Ensemble Taking the Bullet Better to Die than Be Killed Kick the Son of a Bitch Aluminum Christmas Trees In Medias Res Greater-Scope Villain All Just a Dream Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Action Survivor Refuge in Audacity Half the Man He Used to Be Manchild