Tropescilloscope: World of Ham

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