Tropescilloscope: Wretched Hive

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