Tropescilloscope: The X of Y

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