Tropescilloscope: Trailers Always Spoil

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