Tropescilloscope: Trailers Always Spoil

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