Tropescilloscope: Wham Line

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