Tropescilloscope: Word of God

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