Tropescilloscope: Trailers Always Spoil

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