Tropescilloscope: Wicked Cultured

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