Tropescilloscope: Whole Plot Reference

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