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"trope" Definitions
  1. a word or phrase that is used in a way that is different from its usual meaning in order to create a particular mental image or effect. Metaphors and similes are tropes.
  2. a theme that is important or repeated in literature, films, etc.

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And it's a trope, but it's a very true trope.
But at the same time you honor the trope, you start foiling the expectations of the trope.
Another new ASMR trend is girlfriend/boyfriend trope, with the boyfriend trope emerging in particular over the last few years.
I knew I was contributing to the writing of a trope I know lesbians hate, but that trope was my life.
The problem with making people think you're relying on a tired and problematic trope is that they'll think you're relying on a tired and problematic trope.
This is an extremely well known trope that is mostly associated with films in the slasher subgenre of horror — but it's a trope for a reason.
You can use the trope, or the writing trope as like, okay, Uber is Travis, but I really honestly do believe it's in the model of Travis.
Throughout the decade, and into the new millennium, the "change of heart" trope —in addition to the "convenient miscarriage" trope—were go-to methods of getting around an abortion.
"   " 'Immigrants are dirty' is a lazy, tired, racist trope.
How's that for redefining the traditional trope of "American woman"?
It is a convenient trope, but eventually it gets tiresome.
Cue every time travel trope ever, played at ludicrous speed.
There's a whole "Behind the Music" trope for this, right?
His new one takes on the "Aliens among us" trope.
There are ballgown reveals on grand carpeted staircases (royal trope).
Admirably, though, Counterpart never settles for that easy AU trope.
The "lone genius" trope is usually unfairly bestowed upon men.
It's a tired trope and this is the latest addition.
You're doing a documentary, which is an old, traditional trope.
The HBO fantasy epic ushered in the trope of sexposition.
Magic in the modern world is always a fun trope.
The artist struggling against easy categorization is an old trope.
And you know that old trope about the "chatty" female?
"She added: "For reality show lovers, it's a common trope.
The internet trope of "Hot or Not" isn't anything new.
Thus, a common camming trick becomes an actual sexual trope.
In the 21st century, the trope hasn't completely died out.
It's practically a trope in video games at this point.
Give them any trope, and they'll find life in it.
And I'm not just harping on the "heartless bank" trope.
Instead, it takes it as read that you will enjoy the fake dating trope, because after all, the fake dating trope is a storytelling framework that has been engineered for decades to be satisfying.
"Seizing on any pop cultural trope as a political tool tends to flatten both the work that trope comes from and the world it's supposed to be describing," Washington Post editorial writer Molly Roberts argued.
The "Final Girl" trope is an old faithful of horror movies.
The trope of the ghostly woman can seem tired and essentialist.
As a trope, they are a perfectly elastic metaphor for adversity.
The shoes, arguably, intend to imitate art, not a racist trope.
She has, to use a common Star Wars trope, a destiny.
Site-specific work has become a standard trope of many biennials.
"The Iraq war was terrible but" is already a hackneyed trope.
There's a practical explanation for the persistence of this narrative trope.
Scrooged, Swimming With Sharks, The Devil Wears Prada — it's a trope!
It was a racist trope that primarily punished single Black mothers.
Suddenly, "should you punch a Nazi?" wasn't just a gaming trope.
I felt like he was there to satisfy a bully trope.
"Gay man pining after his straight best friend" trope: Check again.
Richards, it turns out, is fictional, but the trope certainly isn't.
It also may have one other teen show trope: daddy issues.
As you mentioned, sex work as survival is a common trope.
This is a common clothing trope we've all been exposed to.
The trope reduces the girlfriend or wife to a plot device.
Entertainment's perpetuation of this trope is damaging to black women everywhere.
The American economy's presumed self-healing power is a reassuring trope.
As a political device, the "war on women" trope was effective.
But in this blood temple, it indulges in this trope repulsively.
The Junkie Whore trope is literally killing drug-using sex workers.
Of course, this trope of artificial femme fatales is nothing new.
It's the gender essentialist's platonic ideal of the "deceptive trans" trope.
And that trope certainly doesn't look like dying any time soon.
"Chapter 1" covered a refreshing amount of that trope-laden ground.
Terror in nature is a common trope in the horror genre.
About once or twice a season, Lena Dunham uses this trope.
The shadow self trope is, at its heart, a power fantasy.
" The suffering creative genius trope is "a myth, by and large.
A classic murder-mystery trope ignites this clever, sometimes chilling novel.
For one author, at least, the trope is a terrible irony.
These heroines reject the centuries-old trope of the demure woman.
You really avoid the "hooker with a heart of gold" trope.
" Zinoman added, "What makes him transcend the trope is his vulnerability.
If that's not the millennial trope, I don't know what is.
Establishment fears of Sanders have become a trope in political journalism.
The fascinating trope of the Black Madonna is sadly not represented.
For a long time, that teacher seems like a familiar trope.
The series is a canny subversion of the love triangle trope!
The trope of the "starving artist" got established for a reason.
Sallie Krawcheck doesn't think it's cute — she thinks it's a trope.
This isn't to say every theme and trope has been rewritten.
Sanders benefits from the visual trope of the sagacious elderly man.
It's a trope that's particularly harmful for double minorities like me.
That this particular trope is so pervasive speaks to its power.
Now, the evil twin trope is a staple of the genre.
Maybe it's a trope, but maybe Stephen King invented it — who knows?
In the film, Schnabel finely tunes this wild child trope onto Basquiat.
Hulu's new season of Veronica Mars also plays with the running trope.
Dismantling the reductive Gay Best Friend trope is not a new conversation.
Falling back on the language of romantic pursuit—a trope that recurs
It's an easy trope to mock, but also one that's potentially effective.
Not everyone is willing to embrace or subvert the evil queer trope.
Are we also wary that this "unstable female" trope will wear thin?
It's a tired trope: Woman tries to get ahead — woman is vilified.
I too am human, imperfect, and not some benevolent cancer patient trope.
Theresa May has revived an ugly 1930s trope about "citizens of nowhere".
It relied on the trope of the "spicy Latina" for its edge.
Otherwise, this movie trope is actually sort of sickening...terrible pun intended.
The president's tweets played off the "go back to Africa" racist trope.
It seems to take the "Mysterious East" trope a little too seriously.
Halloween is also famous for its use of the final girl trope.
Clinton tries to infuse the familiar trope with the concept of inclusivity.
"There is an evil clown trope running through popular culture," he said.
It promises to be an empowering take on the historical reenactment trope.
But this trope rears its head most frequently throughout television's many genres.
That, after all, became a major trope in Gaga: Five Feet Two.
But the most pervasive version of the trope today is toxic masculinity.
The trope of the secluded creator has echoes of imprisonment and stasis.
But these losses, too, feel like trope checkmarks rather than real depth.
They include the false conspiracy trope that the students are paid actors.
It's a "Doppelgänger" trope and I love those when they get creepy.
The kinetic pace of Doerr's novel makes this well-worn trope work.
Scary-sounding, futuristic diseases are a time-honored trope of science fiction.
The trope of the United States as Rome is a tired one.
This is another trope we all know: the chic housewife on heroin.
Was anyone else still completely untuned to the double-I trope here?
The sentiment is a popular trope from Big Tech companies and startups.
I Know It's A Shallow Morality Trope Mark texted two days ago.
Look, it's 2018 and that grungy stoner aesthetic is a tired trope.
So that's a more modern rendition of the same kind of trope.
It's an old and favored trope in fashion, once cultivated by many.
The old trope that Jews have secret powers to control other people.
It's just a funny trope to me, such a pathetic little tableau.
Aja Romano and Alex Abad-Santos explained why the woman in the refrigerator is such a troubling trope for Vox last year: The viewpoint of the Women in Refrigerators trope is that women are essentially ... not fully human.
In this respect, the trope has quite a bit in common with the use of school shooting drills as a romance trope on Wattpad — a way of turning a potentially overwhelming, scary phenomenon into an ironically escapist cliché.
The California senator — one of the few black candidates running for president — called the narrative "a trope" that was "just nonsense," and said that the trope has developed "among some Democrats" to suggest African Americans are homophobic and transphobic.
Parenthood can be a nightmare, and horror movies frequently play on that trope.
The trope at the center of To All the Boys is fake dating.
It's a trope that lends itself equally well to both fluff and angst.
Being on the road for weeks at a time is a romanticized trope.
That's a common pop culture trope, but also something robotics experts are exploring.
And it's not like women are immune from perpetuating the Nice Guy trope.
That said, dogs dying in horror movies does tend to be a trope.
The idea of a run-down dirty shack is a common horror trope.
It's a cheesy, familiar trope, drawn out into a painful and visceral story.
It's a structural trope of cinema that employs violence for an appropriated cause.
Do you have a favorite horror trope that just won't let you go?
Playing right into that trope, the succubus starts chasing Connor through the woods.
Something that often bothers me about sci-fi is the loner inventor trope.
It could all be in our heads — but wait, isn't that another trope?
This idea of bad Black mothers, that trope is weirdly common in culture.
I've thought a lot about whether it's a trope that actually means something.
The club's name comes from an oft-encountered internet trope: the sad girl.
Discovery's second half leaves no science fiction trope unused, no plot device untouched.
Instead, each trope sticks out like another sore thumb for viewers to process.
But it's also reflecting the broad cultural trope of LSD-fueled cult brainwashing.
Still, as befits the Star is Born trope, hers is the breakout performance.
Especially right now, this is a trope that many women can relate to.
But Black Panther's use of the trope to scare Ross beautifully disregarded it.
Imaginings of ideal workspaces were hugely popular and became a common visual trope.
Using rape as a comedic trope is tired, in addition to being offensive.
It's such an old story trope: A white person demonstrating superiority over Asians.
This isn't the only recent example of the new Hot Serial Killer trope.
I expected a show like Black-ish to demystify that trope a little.
Feder cites Tyler Perry's character Madea as a modern example of this trope.
It was a swift and charming execution of the "yes...and" improv trope.
However, the trope of the Junkie Whore as only concerned for herself remains.
I'm not sure why I'm so fixated on this movie trope happening IRL.
That much-appreciated OITNB trope has continued into the brand new season 5.
It's based in a racist + non-evidence based trope that immigrants are dangerous.
She suggested politicians have "allegiance" to Israel, reviving a trope of dual loyalties.
"There was a lot of responsibility in not playing a trope," said Maslany.
I don't have to play into some trope of who this woman is.
Another unexpected vehicle for the tired trope is the 2014 comedy Top Five.
It's your typical white-savior trope, and frankly, it's not all that realistic.
It's a surprising, moving gender flip of the usual "supportive, background wife" trope.
Each member of the team falls easily into a familiar reality TV trope.
The complete embodiment of the smart-guy trope that can't do shit else.
If "Love, Simon" didn't follow this trope outright, it certainly flirted with it.
Women always fall into this hysteria trope—the sexually and emotionally overabundant woman.
In D.E.B.S., she takes the corny lesbian schoolgirl trope to its logical extreme.
Their comparison to prove that concerns about her authenticity are a sexist trope?
The whole trope of bulletin-board material is overstated, especially in the postseason.
Name Withheld Startling revelations about paternity used to be a standard novelistic trope.
In a sense, this is a neat reversal of the casting couch trope.
That women are better than men at, well, everything, is a cringeworthy trope.
It's a common trope now, but Monroe may have been its biggest inspiration.
It is such a standard trope that Orwell's name has become an adjective.
Hess: I feel like it's a trope that people look like their dogs.
Fake funny animal accounts with a political twist are a popular Twitter trope.
How Awkwafina rode the unruly woman trope to stardom Hooters is closing restaurants.
There's not much point getting into the offensive trope that immigrants are dirty.
As men who claim to be steeped in geek culture, with careers built on intimate knowledge of genre storytelling, they still developed a large knowledge gap about a toxic, misogynistic storytelling trope — because as men, this trope didn't impact them.
Soaps found that the twin trope worked for them on multiple levels: Not only did the evil twin trope drive the plot, but it also provided a good way of keeping around actors you like after you've killed off their characters.
Instead, he reiterates a classic science-fiction trope of zero-gravity adventure and opulence.
The idea of the "crazy ex" is a trope that seriously needs to die.
It's almost 2017, but Hollywood is still relying on the "psycho ex-girlfriend" trope.
"For many organizations, the word 'family' is a really important cultural trope," she said.
You know the old trope: Women are more emotional and men are more aggressive.
Betty and Jughead bounce every high-school storytelling trope imaginable off of each other.
The "saintly mom" is a trope that's also a throwback to gender-stereotyped roles.
As a trope, "unity" can look a lot like naked ideology masquerading as pragmatism.
All it wants is for you to know that it knows that trope exists.
This funny, sexy, and subversive take on the "biker bad boy" trope is fantastic.
I feel like you subvert this trope in your books — especially in Sharp Objects.
There's a little bit of Wednesday's all-black-everything trope in all of us.
Even more so when the topic is a sci-fi trope like artificial intelligence.
She's left to languish in her mansion, left to become the neglected wife trope.
Even India's Supreme Court appears vulnerable to the trope of a lurking Muslim menace.
The series invokes a trope that has rarely been combined with tech: magical girls.
The fundamentally flawed and broken Origin passengers seem to be leaning into that trope.
Is there a screen trope simultaneously more loved and reviled than real-time hacking?
It takes the classic fish-out-of-water time travel trope and reverses it.
They were also more murderous than most robots, helping solidify the "killer machines" trope.
It's the foundation myth of the United States and a favorite pop-cultural trope.
Even if you haven't watched CSI or Alias, you know the trope being mocked.
Pearls are a trope of first ladydom, almost a default symbol of the job.
At this point, the trope is so common that you barely even notice it.
Dawson and his students set out to understand the truth behind this food trope.
She's more object than agent, and that's why the "cool girl" trope isn't okay.
Just as significant, however, is the way Beyoncé dismantles the Angry Black Woman trope.
At one point, Obama employed a familiar trope to counter the politics of division.
But, is this trope really one we want girls to grow up believing in?
But this trope is one that Peele turned on its head in Get Out.
This is highly problematic since it reinforces the "better dead than disabled" trope. pic.twitter.
It was the fact that it appeared to be using the same problematic trope.
A popular trope in recent years has been the dearth of first-time homebuyers.
This trope reflects the tragic reality that uncles do sometimes abuse their younger relatives.
The media in all forms have consistently backed the trope depicting Muslims as terrorists.
This would in time become a trope that would be used again and again.
She's clearly having more fun with her love story, which is satisfyingly trope-based.
But Batman v Superman relies far too heavily on the damsel-in-distress trope.
What Do Hardcore, Ferguson, and the "Angry Black Woman" Trope All Have in Common?
We're given the trope to conform to, then admonished for it the following month.
"What does [the ancient aliens trope] say about our engagement with ourselves?" she asked.
The finale added insult to injury by doubling down on this irksome narrative trope.
Yet the more America's (modest) immigration decelerates, the more the mass immigration trope accelerates.
From that original caricature, snails and knights became a trope in medieval marginal art.
The marriage of convenience is a well-worn, well-loved trope in historical romance.
And far from subverting the trope of the "tragic mulatto," Senna toys with it.
I'm drawn to the figure of the ungrateful subaltern as a trope in literature.
In her words Women buy shoes, men buy power — or so goes the trope.
"Troubled male genius" is an old trope, but Miller elevates it to new heights.
The idea of finding your soulmate or "one true love" is a timeless trope.
Recreating an architectural trope of  Flushing, Huang built a massage parlor above the bar.
The home invasion trope has been a part of cinema since cinema has existed.
During his campaign, this became a recurring trope whenever he was discussing insurance premiums.
"Don't get trapped by the easy trope that Fox peddles fake news," he said.
Riverdale updated this trope with cute, pop-culture references and the occasional mention of feminism.
Mick himself embodies the old trope of a white man raised by an Aboriginal tribe.
Dig a little deeper into this trope and you'll find a heavy dose of sexism.
The shows' official Twitter account shared photos of another Bachelor trope: the physical fitness challenge.
For one, there's no white savior, a trope that still dominates movies of this ilk.
One trope it does include is the unspoken but totally obvious bond between two employees.
Even our teenager [played by Youth & Consequences's Sophie Reynolds] isn't a typical annoying teen trope.
In this way, the trope portrayed by Porter both succeeds and fails in its intentions.
TV Tropes names this trope as the "depraved homosexual," and it's problematic for obvious reasons.
By addressing this trope and showing you examples, have I inadvertently contributed to the problem?
Martin's novels subverted the typical hero's journey trope in favor of more realistic plot outcomes.
And at the same time, the trope usually makes women's suffering seem uninteresting or marginal.
There are precocious young girls who know better than the adults (royal and contemporary trope).
An example is the TV trope of the "doofus dad" in commercials and TV shows.
In many ways, it's a new twist on the classic trope of the fallen-star.
What to you is appealing about using a superhero trope for this kind of story?
But what famous performer do we associate with the trope of the "job-stealing" robot?
On Sunday, President Donald Trump used a racist trope to attack four members of Congress.
Yet, we can always depend on Shonda Rhimes to turn a trope on its head.
Furthermore, it is a trope of authoritarianism to want to tightly control all story lines.
A CEO's $100 billion estate versus his employee's $10 hourly pay is a powerful trope.
It's a familiar trope for political observers to blame both sides in Washington for gridlock.
The Galway-based Irish studio brings serious comedic chops to these trope-y, spooky scenarios.
It's a bit of a trope, but when you're stoned everything you do seems genius.
Is the open and vulnerable comedian trope just a form of manipulation and self-deception?
They shared piecemeal insights on the broad social and niche industry roots of the trope.
First off, the IT guy being a creepy stalker is a boring and offensive trope.
Iowa, with its Republican governor and U.S. Senators, has shown that trope to be wrong.
Within this chosen lineage, the meeting between Odysseus and Hercules coaxes a trope into view.
This, too, draws on an old racist trope, a reworking of the "noble savage" myth.
The cinematic trope that classical music is somehow villainous has dismayed some in the field.
Of course, it warrants noting that this trope also contains a hefty dose of escapism.
Each artist in Meet Me in the Bathroom fits the mold of a bygone trope.
It was welcoming, never otherizing, and defied the trope that black history began with slavery.
It falls into the 'bury your LGBT' trope that we are all too familiar with.
Opacity is a recurring trope, underscored by blurred motion and obscured faces and body parts.
There's a well-worn trope in horror fiction about the Monster Who Feeds on Fear.
Hardly a trope goes unturned in A DUKE IN SHINING ARMOR (Avon) by Loretta Chase.
New research finds that the trope that women "don't ask" for raises isn't actually true.
In practice, this means advancing through a series of discrete and somewhat trope-y regions.
In general, I dislike the common journalistic trope of "winners and losers" from political developments.
This kind of trope is what fosters the cultural stereotype of the desirable "bad boy." 
The whole concept is, of course, silly (and the trope has come in for mockery).
American Horror Story has always been a horror trope fest, and 1984 upholds that tradition.
Then again, as a right-wing trope, family values has rarely been about actual families.
And the "I'm not crazy, really!" narrative is the foundational trope of nearly all horror.
To be fair to the show, it might be trying to deconstruct this particular trope.
"The idea that women need a reason to kill is a really old trope," she says.
It's an outdated trope that is still evident in characters like Daenerys in Game of Thrones.
Some versions of the fake dating trope involve one partner tricking the other into the relationship.
It's a classic sports trope, the dreamer who sets a lofty goal then somehow achieves it.
There's a trope that foreign startups can't innovate—they just copy ideas created in Silicon Valley.
We also talked about Canadians, particularly that old trope about how little Americans know about us.
Because it's just such a trope for someone to come out of their shell using fashion.
The lesbian doppelgänger is a pop culture trope that has been around for a long time.
It's a book that assesses young queerness without forcing the lens on a coming out trope.
But, there's one rom-com trope I just can't wrap my head around: The wedding hookup.
In her latest film, she nails the trope again, but this time with an American accent.
Mr Martin's novella, "Nightflyers", took the trope of the haunted house and sent it into space.
Every lame, insulting fat joke or trope you can imagine makes its way into every episode.
The traditional TV mom is a trope and I think this is a departure from that.
"Blurring the boundary between audience and artist" in such a manner is a well-worn trope.
But using this trope effectively requires either careful setup or especially sharp execution, and ideally both.
The viewpoint of the Women in Refrigerators trope is that women are essentially ... not fully human.
The alienated man lashing out at society is a trope that popular culture loves to explore.
" He went on to note that "masturbating before you write is a constant trope in literature.
But Shannara Chronicles only seems to be playing with the reluctant-messiah trope for momentary tension.
The Angry Black Woman trope has appeared over and over again in film and on television.
"When Romano painted the mural, Americans were obsessed with the 'noble savage' trope," Crown told me.
"Extremely muscular men wearing almost no clothing was such a trope of '80s fantasy," he says.
It's not just the woman in general who suffers from this trope — it's the woman comedian.
"It also includes an ugly anti-Semitic trope of Jewish 'greed'," she said in a statement.
There's a trope floating around within the business world that product managers are effectively mini-CEOs.
This self-described 'shitpost metropolis' exhausts every linguistic and photographic outrage, and every crude, derogatory trope.
The Lethal Weapon trailer really outdoes its peers, though, taking this trope to its ugliest conclusion.
The 'go back' trope is deeply rooted in the history of racism in the United States.
You can find the trope in Frozen (shipwreck), Bambi (hunters), and Cinderella (mysterious causes, I guess?).
Since 2016, however, if the trope hasn't exactly died, it's yielded to an even simpler reality.
Trump and his allies have instead wielded every ancient trope used to denigrate would-be immigrants.
The now well-established trope — known as the daddening or dadification of games — is continued here.
There's a reason the idea that we all turn into our mothers is a common trope.
Booker has acknowledged the trope and jokes about it, but he doesn't neatly fit the mold.
Sex dolls (or sex statues, or sex robots) have been around, as a trope, for millennia.
The "sex worker with a heart of gold" trope is as tired as it is patronizing.
Muslimova's riff on the trope of woman as vessel is a perverse celebration of olfactory delight.
We've all heard the gruesome trope of the serious gamer who refuses to take bathroom breaks.
State of Decay took a tired, old trope—the zombie apocalypse—and made it fresh again.
"There is a way in which my life is a trope," he observed the other day.
Another frequent trope is labeling women as crazy, which Ms. Matthews said was thrown at Mrs.
"Philbin added that the managers invoked that argument as a "trope ... to disguise the real issues.
" Numerous Jewish leaders slammed Trump for invoking the anti-Semitic trope that Jews have "dual loyalty.
We used the trope of the missing girl to dive into deeper territory with our characters.
It may partially be a tired trope by now, but there&aposs also truth to it.
The trope that all Muslims are somehow predisposed to violence or terrorism is dangerous and wrong.
The trope of the untrustworthy woman pervades entertainment media as much as it does real life.
Jean-Claude Van Damme immortalized the Westerner in Thailand trope in the 1989 cult classic Kickboxer.
Watch: Broadly Meets: Virginia Despentes on Killing Rapists "Femme fatales are a complicated trope," Gates says.
She acquired another nickname, La Higienica ("the Clean One"), from a frequent trope in her films.
It's known as the "Bury Your Gays" trope, and it's more extensive than you might expect.
The popular comic book site CBR added "women in refrigerators" to its trope entries in 2007.
The classic example of this was the Cadillac-driving "welfare queen" trope of the Reagan years.
The filmmakers care for Juno too much to dehumanize her and turn her into a trope.
Pretty Little Liars has been teasing the possibility of deploying the evil twin trope for years.
We're may be living in a modern era, but this is a timeless trope: Bad news sells.
Despite the introduction of more nuanced portrayals, the trope of female villains untangling their fertility issues continues.
Check out the people who helped bring this classic trope to life in a reimagined, inclusive way.
Lara Jean and Peter's relationship is borne from a classic rom-com trope: the fake dating scheme.
To be fair, the "hit-your-head and madness ensues" trope isn't completely fiction—far from it.
Topor studied at the Beaux-arts de Paris, but rejected the classical painter-in-his-atelier trope.
It's a common dating trope to be turned off by someone who is "too interested" in you.
Clothing that capitalizes on the "ugly Christmas sweater" trope by adding exaggerated jokey details, like drunk elves.
The past coming back to haunt you is the trope of too many horror films to name.
After all, young women as vigilantes are not a trope, where the tortured vigilante guy certainly is.
It helped that Common taps into an exciting sci-fi trope: artificial intelligence and the uncanny valley.
A harmful trope common in stock photography reduces trans individuals to images of their isolated body parts.
In the least subtle way possible, it plays on the trope of finding god on your food.
The videos involve a disproportionate amount of head-swapping, an apparently popular and pretty innocent children's trope.
YouTube commenters were quick to criticize the trailer, with some pointing out the trailer's white savior trope.
Perhaps one of the best descriptions of this trope can be found in Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl.
For campaign watchers in 2016, the trope has become so familiar it typically slides by without notice.
We hear a lot of stories; it's a trope, a cliché, to hear about survival sex work.
The familiar trope will get a teen-friendly treatment when the bondage baton is passed to After.
But subpar parenting isn't just relegated to live-action television; it's a common trope in cartoons, too.
Or, even worse, don't let Noah fall into a Stand & Deliver or Dangerous Minds hero teacher trope.
That's such a trope in modern movies — women working at magazines, when that's barely a job anymore.
Here are a few former sports stars who have defied the trope of the bankrupt retired athlete.
The maniacal laughter that appears to be the signature trope of this 'genre' at least seems appropriate.
There's an old trope in the West that India is like Indian trains — exotic, lurching and slow.
He also typifies the "ugly American" trope and dresses like a hipster trying to mock frat bros.
I've felt the brunt of this Conniving Girl Who Tricks You Into Buying Her Free Drinks trope.
It's an unfortunate trope that has worked to exclude Black women from The Bachelor and The Bachelorette.
That the evil foreigner trope has been around for a while makes its undercurrents no less uncomfortable.
She'd be happier with a nice guy like Jonathan instead, fulfilling that other classic 1980s movie trope.
Paige's Hollywood success story follows the rags-to-riches trope many of us are already familiar with.
An example of that would be the "surprise your partner" trope for spicing up your sex life.
Yes, he seems nice enough for Cookie, but the nice-guy trope is also flawed, and tired.
It would be inaccurate to reduce Mickey and all of these other characters to a mere trope.
Two hot women hooking up on a sitcom feels like a trope ripped from the early aughts.
It's a welcome reversal of the autofictional trope that valorizes a narrator's solitary arc toward artistic achievement.
AS dives headfirst into the mysterious Berlin producer duo trope, successfully creating a confusing yet intriguing vibe.
It's a trope that Black communities still have to actively resist in our interactions with white people.
It's such a classic horror movie trope that terrible things are happening in basements and attics everywhere.
I drag out a common trope to convince the uninitiated that bidet life is the only life.
This anti-Semitic trope has been used to persecute Jews for centuries & it's unacceptable to promote it.
Westworld signals its inversion of the humans being attacked by evil-machines trope from its opening shot.
For a moment, you believe the series is about to continue the horrific Bury Your Gays trope.
She used language that, to many ears, evoked a longtime trope about American Jews having divided loyalties.
You know that old trope of a sexy lady clad in a man's shirt and nothing else?
The trope of a cursed wound that won't heal is obviously not unique to these two stories.
Others say she's pretending to be bisexual for the "attention," a trope often used against bi women.
This metaphorically rich tableau indicates the ongoing maturation of the luxury spaceship trope through its successive incarnations.
Less rare, unfortunately, is the trope of television and movies killing gay women off for shock value.
In other cases, they're simply meekly perpetuating the "drugs are bad" trope institutionalized by America's drug war.
We've relitigated the Democratic primary so much that such arguments have become a trope on their own.
"Depicting Jews as an octopus encircling the globe is a classic anti-Semitic trope," the organization wrote.
Studying the trope of the panicked populace goes back to the fearful days of the Cold War.
But this trope about different styles of leadership among men and women seems past its expiration date.
This self-undermining flaw makes the trope a useful way to grasp the dilemmas facing Trump's opponents.
The trope that Marcus wants to ban certain forms of protected speech is, in fact, demonstrably false.
Critics on Saturday were quick to point out that this language echoes a popular anti-Semitic trope.
We all know the trope: When a woman doesn't lead well, it's evidence that women can't lead.
Over on TikTok, Asian creators are turning the trope around to make fun of the racism itself.
Hyperbole is a foundational trope of hip-hop, but ultimately its poetic value lies in communicating truth.
This clever bitsy game uses the "homeward journey" trope to introduce lesser known species of wild bees.
" She apologized this month, saying that she was unaware that invoking hypnosis was an "anti-Semitic trope.
It is, to use an old California trope, going to be a real bummer for Silicon Valley.
How many times can you feel the horror trope coming before it gets all the way tired?
It's a common TV trope that a woman's relationship to food is an indicator of her personality.
It's full of romance in all directions, plenty of fantasy trope subversions, Brennan's typical insouciant wit. —AR
The problem with this trope lies less in its individual occurrences and more in its sheer prevalence.
The beginning of 'No Man's Sky' felt more like thrownness than an amnesiac trope The beginning of No Man's Sky could be mistaken for an amnesiac trope, but to me it felt more like thrownness — a position of determination and freedom that projected my eyes into the stars.
The iconic makeover scene highlights an old movie trope; this theme is so popular that it's been dubbed the "Beautiful All Along" trope, in which a dorky female character whips off her glasses, lets her hair down, and dons a tighter-fitting top, thus miraculously transforming into a megababe.
That framing is now so expected that it's become a secondary trope to reference the trope: "Because Robbie is new on the scene, reporters are trying to fix her with a narrative," Rich Cohen wrote about Australian actor Margot Robbie in a 2016 cover story for Vanity Fair.
Politicians deflecting and flat-out denying speculation about the prospect of future candidacy is a known political trope.
They are the archetypal women in competition, an ancient trope that's boring, silly, and not all that realistic.
To All the Boys I've Loved Before, Netflix's surprise hit teen romance, is an unabashedly trope-based movie.
Instead, it executes an old trope, simply and with no frills, and it does so really, really well.
In that case, the controversy arose not over whitewashing, but over the use of the white savior trope.
Reducing the Japanese MMA scene to only focusing on its "shock" side is fast becoming tired editorial trope.
In slight contradiction, Fischbach tells me that the customer and the provider are interchangeable—another sharing economy trope.
But really, Mona has always been the same character — she just used this tired trope to her advantage.
There's a trope in science news coverage that plays out again and again and again: the coffee study.
It's a trope that's largely gone unchecked, showing up again and again in otherwise beloved pop culture phenomena.
Eh. Jayne has a wealthy husband in the form of Tom Girardi, but that's where the trope ends.
Implanting a microchip inside the brain to augment its mental powers has long been a science fiction trope.
Minorities being saved by white characters is an age old trope in film and it needs to die.
After all, there's a reason it's a trope in so many movies about young love (The Notebook, anyone?).
Inadvertently feeding the old trope about liberal hostility toward family values, they launched a misanthropic website called yourrepublicanuncle.
However, another popular trope about bisexual people — that they lack sexual morals, boundaries, and control — was also implied.
When I say "fridging," I'm referring to the infamous comic book trope of the woman in the refrigerator.
The commercial taps into a familiar trope, in which a competent computer intelligence picks up after human fallibility.
Superstore's season finale is a reminder of what's so thrilling about the will-they-or-won't-they trope.
Modeling agent Sybil (Patricia Haines), who is actually a high priestess, represents a retrograde evil predatory lesbian trope.
But the "heroes suffer, and it doesn't slow them down" cultural trope does reflect a common social stereotype.
You can check out a video promo for ACE Eyewear below, complete with tired, lame nagging girlfriend trope.
It is a classic trope for people to claim that the FBI cannot talk about a pending investigation.
Dinah Stevens (Adina Porter), a voodoo priestess on American Horror Story: Apocalypse is an example of this trope.
There's Europa, an icy Jovian moon and the focus of a longstanding science fiction trope about alien life.
This subversion of the gothic romance trope works so well in part because it's making the subtext text.
So, here's to our favorite movie trope, the one that reminds us of our pea-sized normal brains.
It's a trope older than the Bible, and still prevalent in the femme fatale types of modern entertainment.
There are, of course, people who would disagree with Simone, arguing that the film succumbs to the trope.
This is why it's important to remind ourselves that these people are more than just a rhetorical trope.
Now, this "body as machine" trope is the well from which much of current-day body hacking springs.
Sekiro acts as a reminder of a world before the term "Souls" became a genre—nay, a trope.
The "effortless" trope has long been the way to distinguish cool style from style that tries too hard.
This is a common trope among those I grew up around—people trying to make change from within.
VICE: For each season of Decker, you've picked a different trope to dictate the style of the show.
He has neutralized a tired horror trope and asserted the utility of science over magic, truth over deceit.
Holding out for a hero is a common trope on television, and well, we need to keep holding.
But one trope above all others is the true hallmark of the found footage movie: Last Camera Standing.
But Chicharito sees your played golazo trope, and snuffs it out with a burner to the lower corner.
It's recognizably a political ad, following the usual trope of interspersing Sanders's speeches with testimonials from his supporters.
A lot of times in media, we are the trope of women who are super successful and independent.
Hudson is charming, and as Lena's wayward sister Maya, Diane Farr brings actual humanity to a wacky trope.
The Kardashian women's public image supports the trope of the beautiful opportunist, out for money and/or fame.
Describing Africans as monkeys is a common racist trope, and might seem like yet another example of dehumanization.
Against this backdrop, the trope of a bumbling Peace Corps "savior" without "real" development chops begins to unravel.
Pretty much every character at the school represents a different anime trope, including Professor Dog, a talking corgi.
His assumption that his racist views hold quiet but widespread currency is a familiar trope among racists, too.
On Tuesday, Trump used an anti-Semitic trope in questioning the loyalty of Jews who voted for Democrats.
Without delay, then, here's our deep dive into the MCU's most enduring â€" and most hilarious â€" trope.
The Israelites took the transgender trope from their surrounding cultures and wove it into their own sacred scripture.
The old market trope suggests bull markets instead die of excess — too much hubris, and too much leverage.
In a classic rom-com trope, Moe is barred from going to the dance and unloading her feelings.
Sex Education knows which trope you expect to play out, and instead delivers a story about real people.
Yes, it's the same thing as the "meth zombie" trope—it allows people to diagnose others as monsters.
But before such "heated" bouts of lunar comeuppance, Huppert takes the "clueless white lady" trope to hilarious extremes.
Still, the trope reached its logical end at the dusk of the George W. Bush presidency in 2008.
Every teen horror trope is present but twisted just enough to cancel out the rules of the game.
It's the easy narrative to go for and it's clear Stormzy aimed to avoid falling into the trope.
Belsky explains on the blog why she believes examining and questioning the headless woman trope is so important.
It's a fun, weird story, but also one that traffics in stereotypes, Orientalism, and the white savior trope.
You know the old trope: An assertive man is a strong leader; an assertive woman is a … witch.
And a very of-the-moment romance trope has emerged virtually overnight: the couple brought together by quarantine.
There's also a scientific justification for the trope, something known as the law of propinquity, or basically: closeness.
One chapter explores the trope of the wounded warrior, intended to underscore sacrifices colonial troops supposedly willingly made.
You're talking about tropes, and "trope" has become kind of this bad word for a lot of critics.
There is a common trope about this situation, perpetuated frequently on TV, in illustrations, in casually irritated conversation.
I moved to New York City, fulfilling the trope with which so many from the South are familiar.
Could I write a movie called President's Day borrowing the same "one day repeated over and over" trope?
Here's hoping someone submits incredible imagery, so we can move beyond the "hooded man behind a keyboard" trope.
But the Amazon series takes a different tack, setting aside the "What if the South had won?" trope.
The trope of the 'hardworking family' is particularly galling because it excludes huge swaths of women like me.
The trope of the money-grubbing Jew using his financial prowess against innocent non-Jews goes back centuries.
It's truly time to retire the misogynist trope that angry men are powerful, yet angry women are unhinged.
We're accustomed to the trope that this year's presidential election featured the two most unpopular candidates in history.
Browsing The trope of the impossibly chic Frenchwoman is one that fashion can't seem to let go of.
Traditionally, the ditzy high femme superspy is a post-feminist "have your cake and eat it too" trope.
The idea of the Kennedy years as Camelot became an enduring trope and, for some, a maddening lie.
But Mr. Buttigieg is also fighting against what he sees as the political trope of fighting per se.
It wasn't just his interest in scrutinizing his own contradictions, by now a trope for any thoughtful rapper.
In an amazing way, the first thing that goes out the window is the trope of a woman.
The issue with the millennial-murder trope is not so much the deadly implications, which are often valid.
But the more TV indulges in these sorts of deaths, the more the trope curdles into something exhausting.
The femme fatale is a huge trope — not just in cinema but in real life (see Amanda Knox).
The trope of unnatural artifice set against a weirdly dystopic suburban backdrop is one of horror's most common.
What makes the trope more or less work in the end is that Novik's girls are not just heroines.
The other, Elena (Kim Basinger), fits into the older woman trope — she's the woman who shaped Grey's "particular" tastes.
Like so many plus size women, I'd spent much of my life feeling like a tired fat-girl trope.
It has bled beyond horror movies—has escaped like the unshackled self-aware zombie trope into the popular conscious.
It's a tried and true trope of startups: the 21-year-old college dropout founder with a brilliant idea.
Why Hyundai chose to traffic in a stale trope about women as terrible drivers, however, will remain a mystery.
What trope do these two flicks have in common besides blonde leads looking-but-not-looking for "the one"?
Broad City did away with the naive airhead trope, proving that female-led, goofball comedy can also be intellectual.
While there aren't any characters in The Deuce who fit this trope, yet, it's still a narrative worth noting.
But this trope lives on in Villanelle, whose sexual desire is very much linked to her need to kill.
Pentagon spokesperson Dana White said insurgents were "desperate" because they were "losing ground," another trope familiar to military reporters.
Perhaps Woodley's character is sharing her own contribution to the trope in the next chapter of Big Little Lies.
This kind of visual exposition is now a familiar trope, but it effectively demonstrates Bellingcat's real-time, global connectivity.
Now Nathaniel [current castmember Scott Michael Foster] is yet another trope, which is the deeply damaged, very attractive asshole.
Her search for an identity is a common Disney trope, uncomfortably grafted onto a story where it doesn't belong.
Running with the classic trope of ripping off young creatives, one member even offered to pay Addman in exposure.
There was The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, with the classic good-scientist-turned-evil trope.
To the Editor: A perpetually half-empty glass seems to be the dominant trope in reporting issues in education.
"It's shocking to hear a Member of Congress invoke the anti-Semitic trope of 'Jewish Money,'" Engel's statement said.
Smith, through every kind of Bond Girl imaginable, the trope of the femme fatale spy is a pervasive one.
She's introduced as a trope ("corporate ice queen"), and has to stomp that down from a dismissive co-worker.
So far, we remain firmly entrenched in the only-the-right-man-can-help-woman-achieve-her-potential trope.
But Pretty Little Liars uses more than a single specific Hitchcockian suspense trope to play with teen girl fears.
Morgan Parker's latest poetry collection makes reference to this trope, demands that we interrogate it, and, ultimately, reimagines it.
The makeover scene has become so common in teen rom-coms that it's an inescapable trope of the genre.
It's not a trope until it becomes one, and it becomes one through repetition and a replication of it.
Both were beautifully unpredictable and trope-busting, full of richly drawn characters and a deeply involved and intriguing mythos.
Jacqueline is the refreshing antidote to the trope of the ice-queen editor who gives all journalism majors nightmares.
I didn't think that meant she would be a walking example of the mother-in-law from hell trope.
Unfortunately, many of our elected leaders have bought into the misguided trope that HUD's programs create lifetime welfare recipients.
Hell, the tradition-cum-trope even famously wormed its way into the halls of power a few years back.
But the dream, combined with other parts of the film, hit on one of my biggest trope pet peeves.
This is a recurrent trope here in North Carolina, which has been a laboratory for attacks on voting rights.
There's a well-worn cinematic trope in which some foreboding object shows up on a radar screen, defying explanation.
Unforgettable's shallow characterization and ill-conceived resurrection of the offensive "crazy woman" trope does all of us a disservice.
Basically, it takes every conniving advertising trope that has ever massaged your brain, and turns them all upside down.
This commercial relies heavily on the "boys will be boys" trope, which aims to excuse men for their actions.
It's a sturdy right-wing trope, not unlike the "American carnage" that President Trump evoked in his inaugural address.
They also tend to encourage exchanges that feel more like the "white savior" trope than real cultural exchange. 36.
By that time, the trope of older male musicians and their underaged muses had already been normalized for decades.
On "Trailer Trash," Brock reshaped the common emo trope of looking back on one's childhood with a soft lens.
Bonus: You get to look like Leeloo from The Fifth Element, but without the damaging Born Sexy Yesterday trope!
Did you ever consider tying it up with more closure, or did you want to adhere to that trope?
I bring this up because Paula Gamache offers us a puzzle that makes good use of this movie trope.
Yet, in Grace Marks, the trope forsakes the shackles of the male gaze for an entirely new, feminist edge.
The combination of buoyant wealth businesses with a misfiring investment bank has become a common trope of Thiam's reign.
The way "Age of Resistance" uses each of its protagonists to mine a different fantasy hero trope is fantastic.
But, Derry Girls — which returns to screens on March 5 — is turning that tired-out trope on its head.
Gibi ASMR's was a later iteration of the concept, but viewers love her modern take on the classic trope.
By the time Gossip Girl premiered in 2007, The CW on-screen/off-screen romance trope was well-established.
It's also a nod to the common trope of naming compositions with an obscure number, like Autechre does sometimes.
Do you have a favorite trope that you really wanted to write about when you started working on it?
It may be a tired trope, but you can't deny that it's true: hockey is the ultimate team game.
This is not, I don't think, a version of the "bury your gays" trope in its most irresponsible sense.
The cool girl trope perpetuates the idea that women should forego their own needs or beliefs to please men.
While the idea of wearing someone else's face can be creepy, these masks make the serial killer trope tasteful.
She's a cipher — but in a way where it feels like you're commenting on that trope, or interrogating it.
But this trope is based on a long-debunked idea that undersells how unusual and interesting real swarms are.
He was even partially responsible for the latter show's infamous "jump the shark" moment that spawned its own trope.
It's no surprise that books which flip the crime fiction trope of the female victim are growing in popularity.
Dissent within our ranks feeds the sexist trope that female careers after childbirth neglect a baby's needed maternal care.
One podcast that attempts to rectify the trope of the bumbling small-town police force is Small Town Dicks.
It is the angry-black-woman trope, lobbed at everyone from Serena Williams to Michelle Obama for exhibiting audacity.
Policymakers who are willing to concede the economic argument call upon another popular Washington trope to rationalize problematic sales.
There's some truth to that old trope about designers always trying to refine their creations to their absolute core.
But that's a very common thriller trope, and I think it's very hard to do it really, really well.
The first tweet was widely condemned as invoking an anti-Semitic trope about Jewish people controlling politics through money.
The cheerleader is an American icon, a trope of pop culture almost since its inception in the 19th century.
What's made her so astoundingly successful is the trope of spanking, give or take the odd whip and manacle.
Rocky inaugurated the recurring trope of the loose-cannon stew that the chief stew has to try to train.
Anything that receives so much constant adoration and is recommended so often becomes something of a trope, a meme.
The "zoom and enhance" trope is a TV cliché, but advances in AI are slowly making it a reality.
Sen. Kamala Harris told CNN Monday there's a "trope" among some Democrats that African Americans are homophobic or transphobic.
"The trope of women talking on the phone being something that's harmful to society is very old," Lopez says.
There is a pervasive trope that the rock star male musician is dangerous, brutish, and lionized for his sexuality.
Yet Lynch and Frost go one further than the trope usually goes, and make Cooper a literal blank slate.
But Mr. Maduro returned to a familiar trope: A cyberattack, organized from Houston and Chicago, was responsible, he said.
An early forerunner of the trope was the 1913 short "Silence," directed by famed silent film director Lois Weber.
The trope of the "lazy Southerner" dates back to America's postbellum period following the end of the Civil War.
That's seen in another trope of trans documentaries and films: the display of pre-transition childhood and baby photos.
"I guess the trope is I fell in love with statistics and math," he said in a recent interview.
Culture critic Anita Sarkeesian explained the trope in 2011, as one of the earliest videos in her Tropes vs.
It really was the trope of watching my mom losing her memories when I was writing about preserving memories.
The trope was heavily used against President Barack Obama, his wife Michelle, and other members of his White House.
It's a common trope for fashion brands to describe their customer base as a "community" and not just customers.
Back in 1998, Morrison called Clinton "our first black president" in a New Yorker essay because the scrutiny Clinton received around a sex scandal resembled a familiar racialized trope: Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas.
She is a perfect caricature of the pop diva, a trope that has evolved and has its own racial undertones.
Bendy displays may not signal high-techness (via inference or trope) as much as transparent displays or VP [volumetric projection].
Still — someone, please eliminate the tired trope that children of divorce cannot find love because their parents fucked them up.
Paolo Pettigiani brings a refreshing point of view to the trope, transforming the stunning landscape into a salmon pink wonderland.
After years of speculation, the breakup of Bane had become a romanticized and borderline ridiculed trope in the hardcore community.
In fact, when it comes to achieving real, runaway greatness, the well-versed trope isn't even the half of it.
She marries, then divorces, Paul Simon, reinvents the funny best friend trope, and unleashes her acerbic wit on the world.
Given the long-established trope of the "bad female boss," there have been questions around whether such criticism is sexist.
That movie is more than 35 years old, and yet there's been no iconic update to that pop culture trope.
The sneak peek ad comes to us from Skittles, and it puts a delicious twist on a classic romance trope.
An awkward and glittering flying saucer hovers in the air above them, a trope Watson repeatedly utilizes in her work.
This week, some old security threats came back to haunt the internet, a fitting horror trope this close to Halloween.
Cash as a heroine is tough and complicated, but Rendon avoids the trope of a girl making good against odds.
Posing with tigers and lions and other massive creatures has become a tired trope in the world of dating apps.
That trope has been turbo-charged by social media, which can turn rumours into accepted facts, and spread fringe ideas.
The brilliance of Halloween's update to the final girl trope goes well beyond the topicality of the #MeToo movement, though.
Before you can say, welp, the evil mistress trope still sort of works, the show pivots to Thomas de Geest.
Or just deepening her pre-existing trope of the sheltered girl that becomes tough upon exposure to violence and evil.
Joe Biden slams Donald Trump America having the most productive workers in the world is a favorite trope among politicians.
It also props up the harmful, racist "angry Black woman" trope she must maneuver around with every move she makes.
Fellow sex worker Candy could fit the easy trope of playing to the "hooker with a heart of gold" expectations.
As the "Sex By Death" trope goes, if a woman has sex in a horror movie, she's doomed to die.
The troll twist here is closely related to the Never Trust a Trailer TV Trope, which is pretty self explanatory.
While it seems like a feminist trope, these women only exist to titillate men, who eventually lead to their defanging.
A familiar trope in American politics today is about how Republicans are knuckling under to the demands of  President Trump .
And here, unfortunately, the film changes direction, and becomes a meditation on a very familiar trope: The Doomed Rock Star.
Veering away from the standard female superhero trope, she is the most ruthless, savage, and dangerous character in the film.
COMPUTER to poke fun at the old pop culture trope of yelling at screens to enhance images and solve crimes.
Cleverly, Cottingham and Singer decided to examine this rock star trope by returning to its ultimate embodiment: the Rolling Stones.
Yes, it's 2017, and we're still battling the tired trope of a jealous Stepford ex-wife, hell-bent on revenge.
The notion that people can reconcile their differences over a beverage has been a tired Madison Avenue trope for decades.
And in an oft-heard trope from Sanders supporters, a post at Alternet dismissed the Post's critique as "establishment gatekeeping".
It's a neat trope subversion, played with all the gravitas expected of the genre, making this crime thriller a standout.
I can't recall another film that has leaped with such mad daring into the trope of witchcraft as demonic ritual.
It's a simple subversion of video games' oldest trope, the retry, which gracefully implies the futility and grotesqueness of war.
As many have pointed out, it's a refreshing contrast to the cutthroat boss bitch trope à la Devil Wears Prada.
But what it takes to get to Dolce & Gabbana's castle is just as suspect as the oft-criticized Disney trope.
These days, it's a common trope: the creative freelancer with an epic job description and the skill set to match.
Ex Machina carries a darker concept and ending using the trope of an unregulated d scientist creating in a vacuum.
Moore's law has become a cultural trope: people inside and outside Silicon Valley expect technology to get better every year.
Emma's backstory—the dead-brother trope—is O.K., but it doesn't entirely explain who she is or why she uses.
Instead, he ought to state unambiguously that the New Zealand suspect's 'replacement' ideology is an unacceptable trope in civilized discourse.
This is a common trope in superhero stories from Batman to Captain America: Trauma is what gives heroes their powers.
Multiple realities is a long-standing trope within science fiction, and Crouch isn't the first to play with the idea.
"It was the stale fantasy trope of, humans are the good guys, monsters are the bad guys," Mr. Jones said.
Indeed, like a Dalmatian to a firefighter, doughnuts have been so closely associated with cops that it's become a trope.
The raffish, action-hero police detective trope of the '80s made for great TV and film; it's just not accurate.
It's a far cry from that "have sex and you die" trope that's felled female characters in horror for decades.
And to the general election debut of a cherished political trope: the conspicuous speaking of Spanish by eager white people.
It all brings to mind the internet trope, drawn from an old Nationwide Insurance ad: life comes at you fast.
Gossip Girl's steely robber baron Bart Bass returns from the dead in the penultimate season, a classic soap opera trope.
In some ways, this trope can be seen as a response to the commodification of cuteness and affection within anime.
Refusing to confine itself to a single plot or trope, it gallops gleefully through every last one of them instead.
At 23,03 words, it offered what Harry Potter fans instantly recognized as the typical Mary Sue Goes to Hogwarts trope.
Erasing memories of scorned lovers is no longer just a movie trope popularized in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Food has become a trope by which the queer community has found commonality, sought visibility, championed diversity and encouraged activism.
They also check off another Bachelor trope by chatting with a random couple who have been together for 20 years.
For many people, the article reinforced a conservative trope: The liberal media was trying to bring a good man down.
It also made the hunger for fresh talent onstage — long a trope of jazz consumerism — seem more apt, less despairing.
It evoked the old trope that women are vengeful and hysterical — a word derived from the Greek word for womb.
I was so fascinated by her that I began seeking out other examples of the trope of the woman warrior.
This phenomenon has been so widely discussed that it's inspired podcast and book investigations into where the trope came from.
Creampie scenes have become so pervasive in porn and beloved by consumers you'd assume it was a long-established trope.
She was referring to a trope made famous in 1930s films, but there was also something of an actual show.
This likely had a significant health impact — one that lives on today in the form of a painful cultural trope.
The supposed hypersexuality of a black woman's anatomy is a ceaseless trope that is always used to get a laugh.
There was an obvious upside, for Republicans, in defanging diversity — turning it into a trope of apolitical, apple-pie Americana.
Of course, the criminal trope is only a metaphor; human standards of fair play hold no sway in the animal kingdom.
In an article for IndieWire, Tambay Obensen argues that Green Book employs the "magical negro" trope in Shirley's relationship to Vallelonga.
In any case, the charismatic white supremacist is a trope that isn't going away soon, either in movies or in politics.
This famously caused a gaming community firestorm around the trope that equates female "strength" to forcing them to survive sexualized violence.
This movie sees no reason that it should make a joke about how you have seen the fake dating trope before.
But catfights and woman-on-woman feuds are a tired, sexist trope, and they're not really what was behind Trump's election.
It sets the stage for the white savior trope that has existed since slavery, except here Trump frames himself as savior.
Today's equivalent, think: Rowan Blanchard and Zendaya, have seemingly transcended the typical "Disney" trope, becoming style icons well beyond television screens.
"Angry Black woman" is just one trope that is still already readily available to the masses, thanks in part to Perry.
There's a kidnapping (a common dog movie trope) and a burgeoning love story between two humans — what more could you want?
The best way to prove an obsolete trope, like the "cougar" construct, is obsolete is by not even dealing with it.
Despite this, the teenager hasn't taken her post down, and has also made subsequent posts referencing her "Australia isn't real" trope.
Thanks to a real-life twist in the infamous murder investigation, the NBC anthology series avoids the cheap trope all together.
The third woman to appear in "Kingpin" is the one to truly fill Narcos' Crying Woman trope: Maria Salazar (Andrea Londo).
The latest trailer for Stranger Things' third season highlights another classic '80s movie trope: ogling people who are very likely underage.
This style trope should be familiar to you by now; the popularity of ironic sweaters began a long-ass time ago.
The mothers-versus-daughters narrative, long an election-year trope, is particularly pronounced now, and tinged with stereotypes on both sides.
The Hard-Ass What started out as a powerful do-gooder lawyer quickly transformed into a trope: the hard-ass shrew.
There isn't a trope or story beat in the film that we haven't seen multiple times in Greengrass's first two installments.
A typical trope in the Western media is that there has been substantial economic reform in China, but no political reform.
A long-standing trope in science fiction is that moment when humanity first meets life from somewhere else in the universe.
It's a trope-heavy sextet — six short films strung together, with nothing obviously connecting them besides a kind of dream logic.
Furthermore, the gold digger trope implies that wealthy people are always innocent targets, preyed upon by working and middle class people.
What we're seeing with climate change is just another example of really kind of a well-known rhetorical and political trope.
We are a culture obsessed with dead girls — so much so that the trope is now a wildly popular sub-genre.
Handler's long had an issue with Jolie, invoking the trope of the "girl's girl" to describe her dislike for the actress.
So when I write "medium," I'm specifically calling on some people to think of McLuhan's "The Medium is the Message" trope.
The premise is simple: Classic pro wresting GIFs paired up with Subway sandwiches and the old "When you ..." Internet humor trope.
When Simone first identified the women in refrigerators trope, she garnered a litany of responses from noted comics writers and fans.
Furthermore, while the "powerful political aide skilled in the dark, manipulative arts" is a common trope, Bannon isn't just any aide.
While possessed dolls are a horror movie trope that have been done to death, the Annabelle: Creation trailer is still terrifying.
It began with Twitter user Jason Oakes, who filmed his attempts to confirm the cartoon trope that bananas are, indeed, slippery.
The usual trope that Clinton is unpopular has been trotted out, as if that were the only factor driving voter preference.
Parents will do anything for their children—it's a trope we often see play out in revenge/rescue thrillers like Taken.
From Sophocles's Oedipus Rex to Faust to Frankenstein, the tragic trope of humans flying too close to the sun is evergreen.
The result beautifully brings psychological depth to the romantic comedy best friend trope, and Champlin makes every moment of it shine.
It takes serious skill to play so dumb, especially to do it over and over again without wearing out the trope.
Bottom areas are often left unresolved, with thinner paint contrasting with overall completion–a trope from Matisse, whose influence looms large.
Using the eschatological parts of the Bible to denounce pan-European institutions is a long-standing trope in Ulster Protestant rhetoric.
This isn't exactly a new observation — the dead moms trope is common in Disney films, and has been written about extensively.
But Halloween's comical casualties are so timely and endearing that we can't help but honor this particular take on the trope.
They go on to explain that Biden's use of the term "Condescending, angry, or elitist" is somehow adopting a gendered trope.
We don't know these people, but we think we do because the trope is so ubiquitous as to be viscerally familiar.
And the "news" Greathouse trumpets — hide your identity and get ahead at work — is a tired trope that needs to die.
The results never materialized, and van Gaal could not even fall back on the coach's trope that his team was unlucky.
The hoary fathers-and-sons trope becomes father and daughter, with Ginny assuming the athletic role abdicated by her older brother.
The trope of borders connects the book's numerous examples, anecdotes, memories, and occasionally dense accretion of demographic, economic, and sociological data.
She defied the Hollywood trope of the stripper waiting for a knight in shining armor to take her off the pole.
When the teaser was released, Fresh Off the Boat's Constance Wu asserted that the movie was perpetuating the white savior trope.
The double-edged sword of using a well-worn trope is that you have to hit the mark pretty much perfectly.
I would say the "weekend warrior" trope is real not just in New York City but throughout a lot of America.
The cast is mostly British, playing into the odd Western TV trope where English accents stand in for all foreign accents.
However this phenomenon manifests, withholding sex is a common trope, both in pop culture and the personal lives of countless Americans.
This satirical anti-anime riffs on the trope of invincible heroes who defeat insanely powerful enemies with inexplicable, contrived power-ups.
Viewing technology as disruptor and public policy as regulator is such a trope that the concept has seeped into pop culture.
This compulsion to create funny robots goes back thousands of years, and has become a major trope in modern science fiction.
Jim Jarmusch would build on the trope fifteen years later, in Ghost Dog, a movie scored by Wu Tang's leader, RZA.
Nesser cautioned against relying too much on the socio-economic trope to explain why some Belgian youth are attracted to extremism.
Like the gamer girl genre, the casting couch trope speaks to something that affects women outside of the fantasy of porn.
Love amid the darkness becomes, well, a universal desire — a trope we can all relate to, unite around, and root for.
Poland, according to this trope, has repeatedly, and heroically, suffered for the sake of others, especially the rest of Christian Europe.
It was in this heady atmosphere of competing and contradictory cultural influences that the sex robot became a popular recurring trope.
Flipping that believer/skeptic dynamic to tech-savvy/virtual Luddite is a very Black Mirror way of reinventing a tired trope.
The reason to be bullish, though, is that, to use the Silicon Valley trope, there is a clear product-market fit.
The ad was criticized for employing a racist trope that black people could use soap to clean themselves into white people.
This suggests that much of what happened in between — the trope subversions and the detailed history of Westeros — was added later.
Chapter two surveys the trope of inserting Japanese decorative elements, such as vases, fans, and screens into artworks and literary works.
But as the medium has evolved, the trope of a host riffing on ad copy is no longer the only option.
"Fridging" is a comic book trope in which a female character is killed to build a male character's development and motivation.
There's not a ton of depth, although there's a clear establishment of the "heart of gold" trope, despite his grim profession.
Eat Growing up, I was aware of the kids-don't-like-vegetables trope, but it didn't make much sense to me.
It recalls a common trope in the photographs and films of Abbas Kiarostami, who was an influence and mentor to Neshat.
The downtrodden black woman trope is so inescapable in Perry's work that it practically feels like self-parody at this point.
While the trope isn't new, it has become unavoidable in recent years, especially in the realm of team marketing and branding.
The suave killer, of course, is an unfortunate trope in movies and TV, and "You" can't be divorced from that context.
Comer functions as a way to "fix" his inadequacies, acting in the manic pixie dream girl trope, albeit with rocket launchers.
Talking about traffic in Los Angeles is a tired trope (though most of the Angelenos I met loved talking about it).
Though Karen was eager to share in his dream, she was an exception; the hesitant wife is a common Looper trope.
This is a common trope of documentary cinema about STEM subjects, the forward-thinker unappreciated in their own small-minded time.
Despite its obsession with reproducing 1980s classics in high fidelity, Stranger Things subverted a key trope by complicating Nancy's romantic arc.
The sitcom trope is deposited lightly: Smith is comfortable with the setup, just as she is with her pop culture references.
Confronting characters with bizarro versions of themselves is a favorite TV trope for a reason: Imagining alternate realities is just fun.
Ozark's stubborn blandness raises the question of just why the antihero trope continues to be so appealing to creators and networks.
A lot of the failures, I know it's kind of a trope with Silicon Valley that failure is a good thing.
It's its own trope now: You can say, "It's a Murder on the Orient Express-style reveal," and it means something.
Jane and Rafael are best friends now, which means they are primed for television's favorite trope: Best friends who fall in love!
Blurring the lines between good and evil is the point of George R.R. Martin's series, which deconstructs the common fantasy genre trope.
Even with that trope in mind though, few could have predicted Dead 13, a Syfy channel original movie premiering on April 1.
Each one of them, Star Wars, Star Trek, Interstellar, Alien, Battlestar Galactica, even the recent Passengers, have their own space travel trope.
Pop (Frankie Faison), the benevolent owner of a Harlem barbershop, may initially seem like a shopworn trope, but that's hardly the case.
The film also closes in on the "friend dying of AIDS" trope, which was very of-that-moment but hasn't aged well.
Shot in Warlpiri language, the film mixes up a traditional story trope — young love battling tragic surroundings — with cutting-edge directorial flair.
As much as we've all gotten used to the "cop who makes his own rules" trope, there's something different about The Shield.
Vanillaware's exquisite food, which turns a rote visual trope into an experience in and of itself, is an example of just that.
"We were like, you know, maybe we can move beyond the trope of the girl with her gay best friend," she said.
It's also a tiresome movie trope, which is why I was so relieved when Fun Mom Dinner chose to bypass it entirely.
That trope has been used by men and women alike to justify why we can't have nice things, including a female president.
The first episode of BoJack placed that character trope front and center, and I remember that turning a lot of people off.
I don't think we ever thought about the horror trope but you're right, it reminds people of a classical cliche for sure.
"The crux of the trope is a fixation on male superiority, a fixation with holding power over an innocent girl," McIntosh says.
In this telling, every shoddy narrative trope the stories employ, every pompous speech about deductive reasoning, is as insufferable as it seems.
You see this trope of doctors arousing their patients in pornography, and this is exactly that but it has an academic sheen.
Bonus track: read my thoughts on Taylor Swift making a feminist move with "Gorgeous" by setting a songwriting trope on it's head.
The atrium is dominated by another familiar trope of modern libraries: a five-storey-high cliff of books, called "The People's Bookshelf".
Ms. DeGiulio's paintings take a simple trope, the floral still life, and remake it into a black-and-white postpunk-type affair.
But even in those cases, it still boils down to the core trope of a male hero saving (or avenging) a woman.
Could Perry be giving a nod to this trope by personifying her own type of "rebirth" through these historical and powerful women?
So, John Olmstead, 13, from Mattoon, Illinois, decided to poke fun at a certain holiday card trope in a pretty genius way.
From Leslie Gore to Lana Del Rey, the trope has been sourced, dissected, and written about to the point of no return.
And in the Deadpool 2 mid-credits scene, her death is ultimately reversed — Reese and Wernick might have unintentionally avoided the trope.
Perhaps the most memorable trope of reality TV — popularized in the United States by Trump's old Pygmalion, Burnett — is the confessional interview.
If Trump wants to argue that the press is biased against him, a trope Republicans return to every election cycle, then fine.
There's so much love between these characters, and as trope-y as the whole first hour is, it actually hit its marks.
This trope has always turned some people away from video games, and as the user base expands, violence becomes a mechanical crutch.
With post-Maria Puerto Rico the latest example of that trope, it's time for a better understanding of how disaster management works.
The trope of the cow is thus a convenient instrument, measuring the allegiance to the nation along gastronomical—and thereby spiritual—lines.
You've got this really long-standing trope about women—don't let them do anything, they'll get it wrong, they'll do it bad.
Khan's election is important because it gives the lie to the facile trope that Europe is being taken over by jihadi Islamists.
But Twitter representatives told Business Insider that Trump's tweets from this weekend — despite using an overt racist trope — didn't violate its rules.
Matthew Beeman also got in on the trope, telling Paige how his father chatted with him all the time about F.B.I. business.
A recurring trope of the play—one of ten or so things that Stoppard investigates—is what to do about the news.
That a rich person would finagle a "sweetheart" deal (as this one is often called) is an old trope of American life.
Trump was met with an avalanche of criticism over the post, with Democrats universally saying the tweet played on a racist trope.
Not to mention, Earth and its biological systems, damaged by homosapiens, collapsing under the weight of technological civilization is a regular trope.
It's this adaptability that allows the trope to remain alive, but it's the wishful thinking that makes it so relatable and watchable.
It's a movie that started every single long-black-haired female ghost that wailed loudly while filtering around like a humanoid trope.
That's the purpose of the White Savior trope — to provide a white character that allows white viewers to feel good about themselves.
She's noticed that the trope isn't around as much as it used to be—an observation backed up by statistics from YouPorn.
"One of the saddest consequences of our cultural contempt for dreaming is the trope that dreams make for boring conversation," she writes.
About a month ago, I was reading the new novel "Lake Success," by Gary Shteyngart, when I came across a familiar trope.
Anxiety over forced commingling may explain why the trope of the nightmare feast has taken hold in the imaginations of contemporary artists.
Atlanta The "black barbershop as sacred space" trope isn't new; it's made the rounds in Hollywood, the art world, academia and beyond.
On a base level, Game of Thrones is a show about upending the traditional fantasy trope of a noble war against evil.
In the half-century following the murders, though, Manson has become another sort of icon — the lynchpin for a pop culture trope.
Trilobites It's a common trope in science fiction, but hives in nature are not dependent on any central node for their function.
The movie wants you to resist the sense that you know this trope of a character, and it's constantly upending your assumptions.
Famous versions of this trope include paintings by Renoir, Rembrandt, and Degas, which in turn had their effect on cinema and television.
And while you may think "new year, new you" is nothing more than a cringey, magazine-cover trope, research supports its legitimacy.
New York is such a gross city most of the time, and you did such a great job of skewering that trope.
There's an old trope that when faced with disaster, human beings lose all rationality, running around panicking, looting and trampling one another.
Pregnancy may be eco-horror's most potent trope — a claustrophobic, concentric rendering of humanity's predicament as both source and victim of harm.
The study still offers insight into an age-old trope that suggests younger generations are inherently more self-centered than older ones.
And the recently trending Twitter hashtag #AndThenKarenSnapped has further shifted the "Karen" meme from its nebulous origins toward becoming a mainstream trope.
There's no need for this character to be laden with the same Dead Wife trope that plagues male protagonists everywhere, but alas.
A family gathering for a wedding is such an old dramaturgical trope that I usually blank out when I come across it.
Despite Lydia's being a big and broad character, you're careful to keep her from becoming a one-note character or a trope.
It's a trope-heavy sextet — six short films strung together, without any obvious connections between them except a kind of dream logic.
But others were put off by how his campaign deployed an age-old trope in American political theater — the silent, supportive wife.
Trump is not the only candidate to play the party outsider game — and it's not an entirely new trope in Republican politics.
In the same year that Seinfeld debuted "Bizarro Jerry," The Simpsons and Friends had already done their own takes on the trope.
Reese and Wernick, however, clearly had a vastly different experience with this trope as they made their respective journeys through geek culture.
Most gags trod on the already downtrodden have-nots of Dreamland, the show's trope-y fantasy kingdom backdrop, instead of punching up.
It's a monster story that also appears to combine tropes from home invasion horror and the age-old trope of the doppelgänger.
Evil twins became a TV trope in the '60s, when everyone who was anyone had to face off against their secret double.
In other words, the very beginning of the Bible represents a literary subversion of the binary trope Peterson insists has defined human culture.
When you notice that one member of a couple is much older than the other, then you've stumbled upon the trope in action.
Then there's the absence of the clueless dude/girl trope, where a certain someone asks a hanging question that needs an appropriate answer.
This is a solid first taste from it is a rebuke of that manic pixie dream girl trope we've all groan to loathe.
It's a cop wife trope — "ha ha, bullets in the washing machine" — and it's a terrifying spiral into further ignorance and potential harm.
For our show, we deal a lot with tropes, so that's another trope, the left at the altar is one of the tropes.
As cliché as it is to make impulsive beauty decisions when times are tough, there's more to it than just a tired trope.
The slave owner wakes up and sees a dark shadow standing at the foot of his bed — a fairly classic creepy movie trope.
"The one [common comics trope] we haven't done in the MCU is the secret identity thing," Kevin Feige told Bleeding Cool in 2013.
Martin has said that, at their core, his novels aim to question the "glory of war" trope that usually plagues the fantasy genre.
From The Toxic Avenger and Ghostbusters franchises to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Nickelodeon, slime was a dominant visual trope 20 years ago.
And it's no surprise — the common clothing trope tells every size, shape, and individual that they should dress according to their body type.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The trope of the tortured artist is a persistent one, dating back at least to Aristotle's time.
At the same time these future colonists fall into the Star Trek-like trope of forming a united squeaky-clean quasi-military front.
And if you read between the lines in Sleight, there's enough evidence that we're not fully falling into the trope, I would hope.
You know the trope in Sherlock-esque detective shows where some brilliant sleuth cracks a case by drawing on their nigh-photographic memory?
The reason the "X-hour movie" trope is so annoying is that TV and movies are built to tell different kinds of stories.
One longstanding trope is the "generation ship," a starship designed to travel between the stars, inhabited by the descendants of the initial crew.
Vampires are fetishized, seen as seductive, sexual creatures that will fuck anything, and anyone, a harmful trope often associated with the gay community.
She's also completely flipped the pimp trope on its head to put women on top and call out the fake bravado of masculinity.
That could easily lead to being jealous of his bond with his sister Shuri (Wright), but Nyong'o says the film avoids that trope.
The fact that Frank and Lindsay are accepting of each other's intimacy and commitment issues is a fresh twist on an old trope.
And among those who are concerned with protecting the British public from acts of religiously or racially inspired violence, there is another trope.
And while we know the trope is exhausted at this point, we can't help but dig the subtle callback to the recognizable look.
This trope is repeated with pneumatic regularity every month and during every political Administration, so why don't we just dispense with the nonsense?
Carol Clover coined the term "Final Girl" to refer to the trope of young women outliving their friends to fight off the killer.
The original Halloween has received criticism, like many slasher movies have, about having a moral agenda in regards to its "final girl" trope.
By the '70s, the trope became so popular in movies to the point that "cannibal films" needed its own genre of exploitation films.
That trope was safe enough for 1960s American comic books, but is fairly radioactive for the hypersensitivities of a global audience in 2016.
It even starts with the most overly used trope of the genre: A knight (Obi-Wan) goes out to save a princess (Leia).
It's got a typically unrealistic premise, and The Reluctant Rom-com Protagonist Who Thought She Didn't Need Love trope that proliferates the genre.
It was a catch-all term for a new wave of fast-moving, detail-obsessed videos that isolated a recurring pop-culture trope.
The almost throwbackish formalism of Robinson's writing sets it well apart from more trope-busting work—but the callbacks don't diminish its effect.
Though this isn't unique to the Trump administration, the "I'm doing it my way" trope is something of a passion with the President.
Yes, The Bachelor and The Bachelorette are regularly gross depictions of vanity and narcissism, and they pervert the already perverse fairy tale trope.
Entering, and even watching, the dreams of another person is an old fiction trope, one science is getting closer to making a reality.
The nooses were a clear reference to lynching, Dumpson said, the bananas a play on the racist trope that African-Americans are monkeys.
If there's an optimistic version of the creeping totalitarianism trope, oddly, it's one where the vast majority of people have no power whatsoever.
And watching it now, it makes me realize how much of a trope this was in '80s movies—not even just in fantasy.
Justin Gaethje Where Michael Chandler is the classic wrestler with the big punch, Gaethje is a reckless spin on that old MMA trope.
Like the fantasy trope of a "bag of holding," it's easy to carry, it's miles deep, and it's got everything I need inside.
I may not fit society's version of "cool," but I do think what I've gained from ditching that trope is a lot cooler.
Our love for 80s and 90s TV and movies, and the trope where every single one of them has a Russian bad guy.
The original post even got a shoutout from the Twitter of Amazon Prime's Good Omens, promoting their own show's (excellent) grump/sunshine trope.
The difficulty of finding an affordable apartment in New York is such common knowledge that there's a TV trope to explain it away.
In 2012, Occupy Museums started Debtfair, an exhibition for artists to discuss their debts and put a face on the starving artist trope.
Yet some Dems are willing to "compromise" & spend BILLIONS on a trope because we've accepted some kinds of racism as realpolitik in America.
Yet some Dems are willing to 'compromise' & spend BILLIONS on a trope because we've accepted some kinds of racism as realpolitik in America.
Her supporters said she was criticizing the Israel lobby, but opponents slammed her remark as playing into an anti-Semitic "dual loyalty" trope.
Her remarks attracted stern public pummeling from two powerful committee chairs who accused Omar, who is Muslim, of repeating an anti-Semitic trope.
" She has since apologized for the tweet, saying she should have put more energy into "disavowing the anti-semitic trope I unknowingly used.
Instead of apologizing directly, the outlet initially said the cartoon contained "anti-Semitic tropes," turning public anti-Semitism into a mere mis-trope.
Harambe had already become a weird meme on Twitter, but the Jones attack added another dimension — basically, Harambe is now a racist trope.
Trump has turned upside down the trope on public service to which so many in the U.S. government adhere when joining its ranks.
Project that trope onto the world of style and it's only a minor conceptual leap from designing the look to designing the woman.
In essence, this is just the latest iteration of the "motley crew of lovable misfits overcomes obstacles on its way to nationals" trope.
They stick to a tried-and-true formula, delivering a classic YouTube trope—essentially, unboxing—but for smokers and people fascinated by them.
This is a hoary old trope in science writing, and it's apparently loosely based on fMRI, which is hardly the most accurate discipline.
We've been pin cushions and knife fodder, and, yes, we've also been final girls, but the final girl herself is also a trope.
It's a common fantasy trope to have a formerly godlike character suddenly find themselves humbled by losing their immortality or other special powers.
The Girlfriend Experience places this trope within glass-walled hotel rooms and stuffy, dimly-lit bars, though, where conversation feels stilted and braggadocio.
Contrary to the "liquor before beer" trope, neither having liquor before beer nor beer before liquor affects how intense your hangover will be.
Directed by acclaimed creative director Warren Fu, "Clearest Blue" updates the knight in shining armor trope into Mayberry's own quest to find herself.
Simultaneously, society marks black men as the hyper-masculine brute trope and if you fail that, you are in emotional and physical danger.
To peel back the layer of smoke that separates trope from reality, Broadly spoke with living, breathing female AI developers about this paradox.
Their respective characters turn the typical power-play around to question the male director's role, while adhering to the traditional casting couch trope.
Their argument: The source material, written in 1974, was riddled with Asian stereotypes and Orientalism and leaned heavily into the white savior trope.
Eventually, Trump abandoned the idea altogether, rejecting it as a trope of the boring status quo that he was running to blow up.
When the California attorney general, Xavier Becerra, praised Dreamers last year for becoming doctors and nurses, critics said he reinforced a harmful trope.
As with other minorities, Mr. Trump is not above indulging in glib, often hurtful stereotypes, like the age-old trope of greedy Jews.
Considering the role that guns have played in my life, such moments need explaining, and the Worsley trope is helpful in this regard.
And there were reminders that the media-as-punching-bag trope among conservatives is a tactic that shows few signs of going away.
" Josh Levin's new book, "The Queen," is about Linda Taylor, the Chicago woman whose life led to the political trope of "welfare queens.
But Mr. Macron was adamant, depicting the abolition of ENA as a necessary step toward greater egalitarianism, a powerful trope in French life.
Omar's critics denounced the statement as playing into the anti-Semitic trope that Jewish Americans are loyal to Israel over the United States.
It's a tired trope, one that's become as routine in adult movies as the rumored Hollywood practice from which it derives its name.
Without falling prey to the trope of artistic achievement through trauma, this intensely detailed visual biography does justice to a still undervalued artist.
Then, when we're about to see Holly give in to Daniel, the director pulls a standard rom-com narrative trope: the nevermind kiss.
The trope that "if you are not paying for it, you aren't the customer — you're the product" has been around for a while.
She offered a thoughtful statement that criticized the power of lobbyists in our government while "unequivocally" apologizing for invoking an anti-Semitic trope.
A typical trope is that colleges today spend exorbitantly on frivolous luxuries such as climbing walls, hot tubs and lazy rivers for students.
I understand why politicians and writers and institutions choose to employ the trope of veterans when it comes to arguing for their causes.
The show has some fun stuff, but there's just so much expository and trope-y fluff that it gets in its own way.
Sure, it's a little hackneyed; it's worth remembering, I think, that calling something a trope suggests its overuse but doesn't question its efficacy.
The 1953 classic From Here to Eternity may have set the mold for sensual beach scenes, spawning a whole trope for romance films.
With female rage being reconsidered as both a political tool and a cultural trope, what better time to revisit the original angry woman?
This type of character became such an established trope that the adult cartoon "South Park" featured an African-American child actually named Token.
" Harris said "social media has become kind of a launching pad for every kind of conspiracy theory, every kind of anti-Semitic trope.
When Trump reportedly referred to African countries as "shithole," which he later denied, it was a trope familiar to citizens of this continent.
That can mean leaning on ambiguity and trope, using the established vernacular of your genre as a shorthand without giving too much away.
The trope began as a part of more traditional trickster archetypes across the world, like the court jester, the fool, and the harlequin.
This rhetorical trope has persisted despite radical redefinitions of what healthy sexuality means; one sexual culture overthrows another, but Catholicism remains eternally condemned.
These are the people who bring with them "contamination," (Haitians who "all have AIDS") which functions as a trope for uncleanness, pollution, corruption.
The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, available on Netflix Friday, October 26, dives into this trope, ripping it open to build something more radical.
Instead of parting with hers, she kept it, not willing to give up her creative labor in support of an outmoded patriarchal trope.
This is a typical trope of right-wing memes, which reimagine Trump as a buff soldier fighting for America against the country's enemies.
The group said it was a reference to cartoons depicting Standard Oil, although the creature also has a history as an anti-Semitic trope.
This is skirting awfully close to the odious Magic Negro trope, and I'm not sure Mick being white subverts it in any meaningful way.
Even when he breaks from the swimming/drowning trope, he's still bobbing up and down: his head in the clouds, body on the ground.
It must be time for that other trope of the political campaign: hard hat and high-vis vest, the "builder of the nation" shot.
You know the trope – someone died in an inspiring way, a potentially bad situation led to an unlikely friendship, a dog saved someone's life.
It's going to be trope city and I personally can't wait for our klutzy heroine and her dullsville groom to walk down the aisle.
Regardless of what he was thinking, this old trope has haunted civil rights causes for centuries, even though it has no basis in reality.
It's one more sexist trope of being a woman in athletics: women players are judged unfairly for their behavior outside of the baseball stadium.
Amoral, deeply disturbed bisexual characters have become so common that GLAAD has repeatedly noted the trope in its "Where We Are on TV" surveys.
But with the added dash of self-awareness and deft comedic timing, he becomes a hilarious subversion of the exact trope he fears becoming.
Jesse's confrontations with Neil and Casey push El Camino into its most violent moments, complete with specific references to a familiar classic Western trope.
The lone single voice that can cut through our institutions is a constant trope in political fiction and in our post-Progressive political culture.
For those particularly sensitive to this imagery, the Planet of the Apes sits too close to that demoralizing trope to be consumed as entertainment.
Yes, she screams a bunch of funny things at the screen while munching on popcorn, but, that tired trope isn't where the story ends.
While The Bachelorette is using Lincoln as comic relief, Garrett, who has since apologized for his offensive social media behavior, is no such trope.
But it's Tatiana Maslany who challenges the traditional trope of the hero's faithful love interest as Erin Hurley, Bauman's on-again-off-again girlfriend.
The battle over noncompetes is a modern-day rendition of an age-old trope: the big corporation versus the little employee; Goliath versus David.
Lady Bird, as she moves toward self-acceptance, a classic trope of the coming-of-age tale, similarly seeks the appeal of bumptious capitalism.
It's the ultimate distraction after Fight Club and Mr. Robot have made the trope seem inevitable for a thriller like the Archie Comics adaptation.
The trope-definining instance came in a 1994 Green Lantern comic, in which the hero discovers his girlfriend murdered and stuffed in their refrigerator.
It's exhausting, and the trope of women using their bodies to get what they need from men is starting to get a little tiresome.
In an era of cord-cutting, ESPN just continues to pile problems on itself by continuing its tired trope of liberal programming and moralizing.
It also brought attention to the increasing number of LGBTQ character deaths on television, often referred to as the "Bury Your Gays" TV trope.
And as of the first episode at least, it has even excluded a problematic trope from the show's narrative: that of the gold digger.
Details: Chelsea Clinton, among other prominent Democrats and Republicans, criticized Omar for using an anti-Semitic trope while arguing against U.S. policy in Israel.
Albert Einstein, dapper in his youth, cultivated a waywardness of appearance in old age that has contributed to the trope of the mad professor.
Like the original Iron Sky, The Coming Race has a dramatic ending that sets up the potential for another science-fiction-trope-packed sequel.
The mysterious, male, supernatural child-murderer is a trope of internet horror writing, part of a tradition started by the once-ubiquitous character Slenderman.
But one thing is certain, bitter ex trope that many of us so quickly default to the moment an ex moves on is tired.
Since then, American pop culture has appropriated the zombie mythos into a whitewashed horror trope — one that strips the zombie of any perceived humanity.
The Women in Refrigerators trope doesn't just make a female character disposable; it typically makes her disposable in a horrifically torturous or violent way.
The almost throwbackish formalism of his writing sets it well apart from more trope-busting work by, say, Nnedi Okorafor, whose work Robinson admires.
We're fans of Personal Shopper already, and not only because its complicated setup turns the trope of the lighthearted fashion film on its head.
But when you talk "fusion" in 2019, the cheeseburger wonton is both a perfect example of the category and a confusing yet unavoidable trope.
In any other film, I might chalk that up to a tiresome horror trope, but it does seem like Aster is doing this deliberately.
While more progressive horror films play with the idea of the final girl trope, it's always done in a very knowing, self-referential way.
When Dev goes to get a condom, he realizes they're the world's most racist cookie jar, which is designed like an offensive mammy trope.
Critics also charge that the "fake news" trope obscures the fact that the mainstream media have their own problem with false or misleading stories.
Watch Dogs 2 has done a marvellous job of capturing the bombastic qualities of hacker culture without relying on the clandestine, shadowy hacker trope.
This older "Shortland Street" clip ends with a classic, and misguided, "I'm not crazy!" trope that provides a misleading caricature of mental health issues.
"We're all united in friendly competition" is a popular trope in Nike and Adidas ads, as parallels are drawn between athletes of all levels.
Korea's Strong Girl Bong-soon, Italy's My Brilliant Friend, and Britain's Killing Eve all use this trope as the central pillar of their story.
Snuka was the victim of racist wrestlers in an inversion of the expected islander gimmicks, which were a trope of pro wrestling for decades.
"[I]rony is a trope that plays pretend, saying one thing while speaking in code to a specific audience that gets it," Heinrichs says.
And for all the commonalities between each version of the trope, everyone I spoke to seemed to take a different message away from it.
Combat was a wash, and the multiple lighthouses a boring trope, but it pitched itself and felt like a capital s Serious video game.
Anamorphosis (from anamorphoein, meaning a distorted image) is a trope in Robert Lazzarini's work: he reproduces street signs using computer algorithms to skew optics.
That's a classic formula that isn't confined to the teen soap — Twin Peaks practically invented it — and it has a pretty standard victim trope.
By itself, this is a troubling version of the "wear the girl down" trope; coupled with the play's homoerotic subtext, it's a train wreck.
As well as being a problematic film trope, it's also a pretty damning reflection of the way black people are represented in genre fiction.
Even the coke-sniffing Italian mobsters standing in Frank's way are a trope so outdated as to feel like some kind of anarchic statement.
On "Track Record," Lambert bemoans her romantic woes, and "Tequila Does" is a cleverer take on the succumbing-to-alcohol trope than it deserves.
This is perhaps the most commonly used transphobic trope in media: the deceptive trans woman, tricking hapless heterosexual men into having sex with them.
We've pulled together some of the most cringe-inducing instances of this trope onscreen and sought out the most awkward of these cinematic moments.
This kind of corporate do-baddery is a trope at this point, but in movie theaters in 1973 it was undoubtedly insidious and terrifying.
Theirs is an approach that leans hard on the women's maternal impulses trope, focusing on aww-worthy images of infants, and celebrations of motherhood.
"This is a standard trope of climate change denialism and it is ill-premised," said Michael Mann, a Penn State University atmospheric science professor.
It is a decades-old industry trope pioneered by tobacco companies concerned about the increasing number of studies linking tobacco smoke with health problems.
Wake me when I have an actual sex robot doppelganger, or when we've moved beyond this exhausting trope of robot women as hypersexual objects.
The feeling is mutual: Kids' disgust at their parents' sexuality is a common sitcom trope, and walking in on your folks is considered scarring.
But it's equally important to acknowledge that the "Love, Simon" team reiterated the trope of the queenly, femme supporting character with no real plot.
The images parody the trope of the tourist by theatricalizing the artist's absorption into the role, while simultaneously performing the role of Martin Kippenberger.
With the success of Stranger Things and the new film version of Stephen King's It, nostalgia feels like something of a current horror trope.
The presence of Copland, whom Bernstein revered, is felt in another of my favorite sections, the Trope: "Thank You," for soprano and Street Chorus.
The book is composed of scores of short sections, like shards, in which Ms Machado deploys every literary trick and trope in the canon.
A standard trope in an I.E.E.E. demo is to place the old trembly technology beside the new, sleek and persuasive full-range touch illusion.
Adler was lawyerly, certainly, running down Kael's every repeated trope and overused word, but her attack was as humorless as Kael's reviews are pleasurable.
By accepting the trope that paints public-housing tenants as feckless, we have acquiesced to their abuse and found justification for our own greed.
The only prominent woman in the film is a familiar biopic trope: Supportive Wife of Male Genius, as embodied by Mollie Miles (Caitriona Balfe).
This computerized twist on a familiar environmentalist trope, while different in intent, is in keeping with the triennial's synthetic contents and sci-fi mood.
Ultimately, nothing is much of a surprise in a story that fails to untether itself from Perry's longest lasting trope: the sad black woman.

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