Tropescilloscope: Wretched Hive

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