Tropescilloscope: The X of Y

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