Tropescilloscope: Wicked Cultured

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