Tropescilloscope: Tranquil Fury

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