Tropescilloscope: "Well Done, Son!" Guy

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