Tropescilloscope: Whole Plot Reference

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