Tropescilloscope: Word of God

The creator personally sets the record straight. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Death by Sex Gainax Ending One-Word Title Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Greater-Scope Villain Funny Foreigner Worthy Opponent Vomit Indiscretion Shot Police Brutality Bolivian Army Ending Cold-Blooded Torture Punny Name Stealth Pun And the Adventure Continues Love at First Sight Married to the Job Frame-Up Establishing Character Moment British Films Crazy Jealous Guy Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Manchild Overly Long Gag May–December Romance Gilligan Cut Due to the Dead Offscreen Moment of Awesome Meaningful Echo Funny Background Event Evil-Detecting Dog Country Matters Artistic License – Military Manic Pixie Dream Girl Flipping the Bird An Axe to Grind Framing Device Unspoken Plan Guarantee Berserk Button Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Disguised in Drag For the Evulz Parental Abandonment Diabolus ex Machina He Knows Too Much Improbable Weapon User Badass Longcoat Trailers Always Spoil Immune to Bullets Not What It Looks Like Foreshadowing Even Evil Has Loved Ones Unusual Euphemism And Starring Almost Kiss Bait-and-Switch Naïve Newcomer Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Deal with the Devil Composite Character Villain with Good Publicity Karmic Death Not Quite Dead No OSHA Compliance Roaring Rampage of Revenge Fate Worse than Death The Casanova Word of God Camp Gay An Aesop Age Lift A Date with Rosie Palms Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Stepford Smiler Hypocritical Humor Playing Gertrude Irony Bar Brawl No Name Given Off with His Head! Recycled IN SPACE! timeperiod Reality Is Unrealistic Visual Pun Death Glare Spanner in the Works Laser-Guided Karma Brutal Honesty Killed Mid-Sentence Expy Took a Level in Badass Conspicuous CG The Dreaded Meet Cute Adaptation Name Change Mythology Gag The Big Guy Serial Killer Villainous Breakdown Artistic License – Gun Safety Heroes Want Redheads Disney Villain Death Calling the Old Man Out Meaningful Background Event Wham Shot Mugging the Monster Slashed Throat Celebrity Paradox Even Evil Has Standards I'm a Humanitarian Babies Ever After Auto Erotica In Medias Res Dramedy Gorn Only One Name All There in the Script Artistic License – Law Monumental Damage Last-Name Basis I Did What I Had to Do Affectionate Parody Author Avatar Put on a Bus German Films Took a Level in Jerkass The Lost Lenore Leave the Camera Running Catapult Nightmare You Have Failed Me As Long as It Sounds Foreign Loads and Loads of Characters Fiery Redhead Neck Snap Red Oni, Blue Oni No Ending Bound and Gagged Random Events Plot Face Death with Dignity Scary Black Man Adaptational Badass Foil Black Best Friend Rule of Funny Getting Crap Past the Radar Wrong Genre Savvy BFG Hero of Another Story Fantastic Racism The X of Y Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Superhero Never Trust a Trailer Horror Comedy Knight Templar Police are Useless The Dragon Very Loosely Based on a True Story Ragtag Bunch of Misfits There Is No Kill Like Overkill Not So Stoic I Have Your Wife Historical-Domain Character War Is Hell Improvised Weapon One Steve Limit The Vamp Novelization Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Animal Title Index Cowboy Cop The '80s Truth in Television Eiffel Tower Effect Poor Communication Kills Destination Defenestration Ass Shove Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Ominous Latin Chanting Brother–Sister Incest Dressing as the Enemy Tempting Fate Take That! 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Guy Cool Old Lady Silence Is Golden Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Paper-Thin Disguise Everyone Has Standards Daddy's Girl Mad Scientist Obfuscating Stupidity Needs Wiki Magic Love Badass Boast Bowdlerise Vampire Fiction Jerk with a Heart of Gold Dark Reprise Alliterative Name A.I. Is a Crapshoot Get Out! Dual Wielding Big "NO!" Death by Irony Expository Hairstyle Change Extreme Doormat Pretty Little Headshots Cool Car Important Haircut Historical Hero Upgrade Protagonist Title Rule of Symbolism Film Noir Index Does This Remind You of Anything? Up to Eleven N-Word Privileges Heel Realization Spared by the Adaptation Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Sinister Minister Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique "The Reason You Suck" Speech Noodle Incident Only Known by Their Nickname Extremely Short Timespan Cool Guns French Films Index of Film Westerns Wretched Hive Disproportionate Retribution Dull Surprise Jump Scare As Himself Off-into-the-Distance Ending Evil vs. Evil Blood Knight Attempted Rape Heel–Face Turn Book-Ends Stylistic Suck Deconstruction Air-Vent Passageway Flashback Smug Snake Wounded Gazelle Gambit Hoist by His Own Petard Cassandra Truth Affably Evil Small Name, Big Ego Butt-Monkey Dark Action Girl Ironic Echo Major Injury Underreaction Men Are the Expendable Gender Better to Die than Be Killed Hope Spot She Cleans Up Nicely All Just a Dream Depraved Bisexual Famous Last Words Cool Shades Really Gets Around Badass Grandpa Ungrateful Bastard Call-Back Drill Sergeant Nasty Show Within a Show Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Taking You with Me Running Gag Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Eureka Moment