Tropescilloscope: The X of Y

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