Tropescilloscope: World of Ham

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