Tropescilloscope: Vampire Fiction

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