Tropescilloscope: Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie

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