Tropescilloscope: Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie

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