Tropescilloscope: The X of Y

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