Tropescilloscope: Trailers Always Spoil

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