Tropescilloscope: The X of Y

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