Tropescilloscope: Vampire Fiction

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