Tropescilloscope: "Well Done, Son!" Guy

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