Tropescilloscope: Vampire Fiction

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