Tropescilloscope: Visual Pun

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