Tropescilloscope: Vampire Fiction

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