Tropescilloscope: Wicked Cultured

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