Tropescilloscope: World of Ham

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