Tropescilloscope: Whole Plot Reference

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