Tropescilloscope: Your Head A-Splode

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