Tropescilloscope: Vampire Fiction

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