Tropescilloscope: Wham Line

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