Tropescilloscope: Trailers Always Spoil

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