Tropescilloscope: Your Head A-Splode

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