Tropescilloscope: Your Head A-Splode

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