Tropescilloscope: You Have Failed Me

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