Tropescilloscope: Wicked Cultured

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