Tropescilloscope: Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie

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