Tropescilloscope: Your Head A-Splode

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