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inspectorwired:

movie tropes that will never get old to me:

• a thing happens + two people exchanging money in the back
• fourth wall breaking
• “give up all your weapons” and that one guy that spends the entire evening taking his weights worth out his pockets
• *a terribly loud crash* meowing/ car sirens heard offscreen
• alternatively: a terribly loud crash and one of the characters going “oops” in the most casual voice
• “fuck you” “well if you insist”

#alternatively alternatively: *terribly loud crash w/ sirens and cat screeching*#person: *off camera* ‘I’M OKAY’ (via @zenlida)

character being all “you expect me to do X?” Gilligan Cut to character doing X

• the squad gets captured and interrogated separately, and they’re all telling equally terrible, completely contradictory lies
• people completely missing the completely unsubtle, very visible dangerous thing in the room with them
• alternatively, people absolutely seeing the completely unsubtle, very visible dangerous thing in the room with them and just not giving a shit
• bonus points if it’s a beleaguered minimum wage employee who just goes about their business like “yep same shit as always”
• someone pretending they don’t know another character is eavesdropping, only to casually reveal at the end of the scene that they know (*leaving* “tell tom that he can come out now” *tom drops from the ceiling in spy gear, irritated*)
• choosing to deal with the villain by just leaving them alone in a room with another character
• the “hands go down” trope
• example: “any questions?” *everyone’s hands go up* “…that AREN’T sarcastic?” *everyone’s hands go down*

how could all y’all forget “ACT NATURAL!”

I love how the original set of tropes have a lot in common with Dreamworks’ Sinbad.

…I am guilty of wanting to put these and similar things into my novels…