Tropescilloscope: Wicked Cultured

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