Tropescilloscope: Word of God

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