Tropescilloscope: Wicked Cultured

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