Tropescilloscope: Wicked Cultured

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