Tropescilloscope: Wretched Hive

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