Tropescilloscope: Vampire Fiction

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