Tropescilloscope: Your Head A-Splode

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