Tropescilloscope: World of Ham

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