Trope Namers/Film

Sometimes, even movies start their share of tropes. These are the Trope Namers for films, both animated and live-action.

Star Wars has had so many tropes named after it, it has its own page.

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A-E

• 3:10 to Yuma
  • Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas

• 9
  • Go Back to the Source
  • Fear Is the Appropriate Response

• The Addams Family
  • Made From Real Girl Scouts
  • They Look Just Like Everyone Else

• The Adventures of Robin Hood
  • Men of Sherwood

• Aladdin
  • The Genie Knows Jack Nicholson

• Alien
  • Chest Burster
  • Game Over Man
  • Stay Frosty
  • Vasquez Always Dies
  • It's the Only Way to Be Sure

• Angel Heart
  • Louis Cypher

• Animal House
  • The Neidermeyer

• Apocalypse Now
  • Apocalypse How
  • Apocalypse Not
  • Apocalypse Wow
  • Colonel Kilgore

• Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
  • Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever

• Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
  • Attack of the Killer Whatever

• Austin Powers
  • Fat Bastard
  • Frickin' Laser Beams
  • Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him?

• Back to The Future
  • Delayed Ripple Effect
  • Get Back to the Future
  • Grays Sports Almanac , former name of Timeline-Altering MacGuffin
  • If My Calculations Are Correct
  • "Mister Sandman" Sequence
  • The Other Marty
  • Nobody Calls Me Chicken
  • Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory
  • Write Back to the Future

• Bad Santa
  • Bad Santa

• Batman (film continuities)
  • Bat Deduction (1966 film)
  • Unflinching Faith in the Brakes (1989 film)
  • Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys? (1989 film)

• Battle Royale
  • Battle Royale With Cheese (cross-reference to Pulp Fiction)

• Beethoven
  • Why Do You Hate the Dog?

• Beverly Hills Cop
  • Banana In the Tailpipe

• Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure
  • Excellent Adventure
  • Most Triumphant Example
  • San Dimas Time

• Blazing Saddles
  • Where Da White Women At?

• Blood Diamond
  • Bling Bling Bang

• The Blues Brothers
  • Mission from God
  • Putting the Band Back Together
  • Sunglasses at Night

• The Boondock Saints
  • Freud Was Right

• Breakin'
  • Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo

• Bruce Almighty
  • Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter!

• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  • Bolivian Army Ending

• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  • Looks Like Cesare

• Citizen Kane
  • It Was His Sled (referenced by Family Guy)

• Conan the Barbarian
  • Wheel of Pain

• Creepshow
  • Fluffy the Terrible

• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  • Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass

• The Crying Game
  • All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game"

• Die Hard
  • Die Hard on an X

• Different for Girls
  • Different for Girls

• Doctor Strangelove
  • General Ripper
  • Riding the Bomb

• Dr. No
  • The Blofeld Ploy
  • Bond Gun Barrel
  • Bond One-Liner
  • Bond Villain Stupidity
  • The Name Is Bond, James Bond

• Drunken Master
  • Drunken Master

• Dude, Where's My Car?
  • Dude, Where's My Respect?
  • Dude, Where's My Reward?
  • Dude, Where's Our Car? (though that one appears in The Big Lebowski too)

• Dumbo
  • Magic Feather

• Dumb and Dumber
  • Dumb and Drummer
  • Most Annoying Sound

• Equilibrium
  • Gun Kata

• Evil Dead
  • This Is My Boomstick

• Evolution
  • Black Dude Dies First

• The Exorcist
  • Exorcist Head

F-J

• Fatal Attraction
  • Fatal Attraction
    • Fatal Attractor

• Fight Club
  • Fight Clubbing

• For Your Eyes Only
  • Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping

• Freaks
  • One of Us

• Gamera
  • Friend to All Children

• Gaslight
  • Gaslighting

• Ghostbusters
  • Who You Gonna Call?

• Gladiator
  • Win the Crowd

• The Godfather
  • An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • Moe Greene Special

• The Gods Must Be Crazy
  • The Gods Must Be Lazy
  • The Guards Must Be Crazy

• Godzilla
  • Godzilla Threshold
  • Just Here for Godzilla

• Godzilla (American)
  • The Worm Guy

• Goldfinger
  • No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine

• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • The Good, the Bad, and The Evil

• The Graduate
  • The Graduate Homage Shot (which used to be named "ELAINE!")
  • Mrs. Robinson

• The Great Escape
  • Great Escape
  • The Great Repair
  • Tunnel King

• Groundhog Day
  • Groundhog Day Loop

• Half Baked
  • Window Love

• High Noon
  • Showdown At High Noon

• Highlander
  • There Can Be Only One
  • Who Wants to Live Forever?

• History of the World, Part I
  • Just a Stupid Accent

• In the Heat of the Night
  • They Call Me Mister Tibbs

• Horse Feathers
  • The Password Is Always Swordfish

• The Incredible Shrinking Man
  • Incredible Shrinking Man

• Indiana Jones
  • Indy Escape
  • Indy Hat Roll
  • Indy Ploy
  • It Belongs in a Museum (The Last Crusade)
  • Temple of Doom (Temple of Doom)
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? (Raiders of the Lost Ark)

• It's a Wonderful Life
  • It's a Wonderful Plot

• James and the Giant Peach
  • I'm Not Afraid of You

• Jaws
  • Jaws First Person Perspective
  • Voodoo Shark (coined by Chuck Sonnenberg of Sci Fi Debris)

K-O

• The Karate Kid
  • Wax On, Wax Off

• Kill Bill
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge

• Kung Fu Panda
  • Pure Awesomeness

• Labyrinth
  • It's All Junk

• La Dolce Vita
  • Paparazzi

• Lady and the Tramp
  • Spaghetti Kiss

• The Little Mermaid
  • Under the Sea

• The Little Rascals (started as a film serial)
  • He-Man Woman Hater

• Lucky Number Slevin
  • Kansas City Shuffle

• Maid in Manhattan
  • Mage in Manhattan

• The Magnificent Seven
  • The Magnificent Seven Samurai (partial)

• The Man Who Knew Too Little
  • The Man Who Knew Too Little

• The Man with the Golden Gun
  • Scaramanga Special

• Mars Needs Women
  • Mars Needs Women

• A Matter of Life and Death
  • Stairway to Heaven

• M*A*S*H
  • Suicide Is Painless

• The Matrix
  • Bullet Time
  • A Glitch in the Matrix
  • Matrix Raining Code
  • Red Pill, Blue Pill
  • Answers to The Name of God, formerly Smith Will Suffice
  • Your Mind Makes It Real

• Minority Report
  • Orgy of Evidence

• |Mission Impossible
  • "Mission Impossible" Cable Drop

• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  • And There Was Much Rejoicing
  • The Coconut Effect
  • Help! Help! This Index Is Being Repressed!
  • Holy Hand Grenade
  • Inherent in the System
  • I Shall Taunt You
  • It Gets Better
  • Killer Rabbit
  • Even Heroes Have Heroes
  • Not Quite Dead
  • Only a Flesh Wound
  • Only a Model
  • Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Trailer and Lady Not-Appearing-In-This-Game
  • Some Call Me... Tim
  • Strange Pond Woman
  • These Questions Three
  • With This Herring

• Monty Python's Life of Brian
  • Blessed Are the Cheesemakers
  • We ARE Struggling Together!

• Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
  • Wafer-Thin Mint

• Mortal Kombat
  • Your Soul Is Mine

• A Night at the Opera
  • I'll Take Two Beers, Too!

• The Nightmare Before Christmas
  • Halloweentown

• A Nightmare on Elm Street
  • Never Sleep Again

• Office Space
  • The Red Stapler

• On the Waterfront
  • I Coulda Been a Contender

• 101 Dalmatians
  • Cruella to Animals

• One Million BC
  • One Million BC
  • Slurpasaur (fandom term)

P-T

• The Parent Trap
  • Parent Trap Plot

• Patton
  • Magnificent Bastard

• Pee-wee's Big Adventure
  • I Meant to Do That

• Peggy Sue Got Married
  • Peggy Sue

• Pirates of the Caribbean
  • We Named the Monkey "Jack"

• Planet of the Apes
  • Ape Shall Never Kill Ape
  • Earth All Along (referenced in an episode of The Simpsons)

• The Princess Bride
  • I Am Not Left-Handed
  • My Name Is Inigo Montoya
  • Only Mostly Dead
  • Prepare to Die
  • Rodents of Unusual Size
  • To the Pain
  • You Keep Using That Word
  • You Killed My Father

• The Princess Diaries
  • Foot Popping

• The Prisoner of Zenda
  • Prisoner of Zenda Exit
  • Ruritania

• The Producers
  • Springtime for Hitler

• Psycho
  • Psycho Strings

• Pulp Fiction
  • Battle Royale With Cheese (cross-reference to Battle Royale)
  • I Just Shot Marvin in the Face

• Rashomon
  • Rashomon Style

• Real Genius
  • I Drank What

• Rear Window
  • Rear Window Investigation
  • Rear Window Witness

• Repo! The Genetic Opera
  • At the Opera Tonight

• Risky Business
  • Risky Business Dance

• Robin Hood: Men in Tights
  • Bad News in a Good Way
  • Just You and Me and My Guards

• Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
  • Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon

• Serenity
  • Big Damn Movie
  • No Place for Me There

• Seven Samurai
  • The Magnificent Seven Samurai (partial)

• The Seventh Seal
  • Chess with Death

• Shaun of the Dead
  • Not Using the Z Word

• The Sixth Sense
  • I See Dead People

• Sky High
  • Technopath

• Spaceballs
  • Good Is Dumb
  • Ludicrous Speed

• Spartacus
  • I Am Spartacus

• Spider-Man
  • Brilliant but Lazy
  • Sadistic Choice

• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
  • The Needs of the Many

• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
  • Space Whale Aesop

• Star Trek Generations
  • Dropped a Bridge on Him

• Stay Tuned
  • You Can't Win

• Street Fighter
  • But for Me It Was Tuesday

• Suburban Commando
  • These Tropes Were Frozen Today

• Taxi Driver
  • You Talkin' to Me?

• The Ten Commandments
  • Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me

• Terminator
  • Come with Me If You Want to Live
  • I Cannot Self-Terminate
  • In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves
  • Now I Know What to Name Him
  • Terminator Twosome

• They Live!
  • Chew Bubblegum

• The Three Faces of Eve
  • The Three Faces of Eve

• The Truman Show
  • Cue the Sun
  • Truman Show Plot

• Tron
  • Tron Lines

U-Z

• The View Askewniverse
  • Heterosexual Life Partners
  • Silent Bob

• A View to a Kill
  • Thrown From the Zeppelin

• The Wizard of Oz
  • And You Were There
  • And Your Little Dog, Too
  • Cowardly Lion
  • I'm Melting
  • Lions and Tigers and Humans, Oh My!
  • The Man Behind the Curtain
  • Tin Man

• X-Men
  • Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?