Tropescilloscope: Wretched Hive

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