Tropescilloscope: Whole Plot Reference

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