Tropescilloscope: World of Ham

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