Tropescilloscope: Vampire Fiction

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