Tropescilloscope: Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie

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