Tropescilloscope: Whole Plot Reference

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