Tropescilloscope: Tranquil Fury

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