Tropescilloscope: Wretched Hive

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