Tropescilloscope: Wham Shot

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