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.


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


 * 9|Nine
 * 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


 * 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


 * Horsefeathers
 * 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)


 * Its 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)


 * 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


 * Mash
 * 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


 * One Hundred and One Dalmatians
 * Cruella to Animals


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


 * 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
 * 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


 * 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?