Tropescilloscope: Wretched Hive

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