Tropescilloscope: Trailers Always Spoil

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