Tropescilloscope: Whole Plot Reference

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