Tropescilloscope: Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie

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