Tropescilloscope: Word of God

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