Tropescilloscope: Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie

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