Tropescilloscope: Tranquil Fury

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