Tropescilloscope: Wretched Hive

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