Tropescilloscope: Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie

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