Tropescilloscope: "Well Done, Son!" Guy

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