Tropescilloscope: The X of Y

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