Tropescilloscope: Vampire Fiction

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