Tropescilloscope: The X of Y

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