Tropescilloscope: Word of God

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

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