Tropescilloscope: Wicked Cultured

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