Tropescilloscope: World of Ham

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