Tropescilloscope: Whole Plot Reference

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