Tropescilloscope: World of Ham

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