Tropescilloscope: Word of God

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

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