Tropescilloscope: Wretched Hive

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