Tropescilloscope: Wretched Hive

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