Tropescilloscope: Your Head A-Splode

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