Tropescilloscope: "Well Done, Son!" Guy

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