Tropescilloscope: Tranquil Fury

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