Tropescilloscope: Whole Plot Reference

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