Tropescilloscope: Whole Plot Reference

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