Tropescilloscope: Vampire Fiction

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