Tropescilloscope: Wretched Hive

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