Before making a single edit, Tropedia EXPECTS our site policy and manual of style to be followed. Failure to do so may result in deletion of contributions and blocks of users who refuse to learn to do so. Our policies can be reviewed here.
All images MUST now have proper attribution, those who neglect to assign at least the "fair use" licensing to an image may have it deleted. All new pages should use the preloadable templates feature on the edit page to add the appropriate basic page markup. Pages that don't do this will be subject to deletion, with or without explanation.
All new trope pages will be made with the "Trope Workshop" found on the "Troper Tools" menu and worked on until they have at least three examples. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000 , SelfCloak or RRabbit42 . DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP.
Quotes • Headscratchers • Playing With • Useful Notes • Analysis • Image Links • Haiku • Laconic
Babe : Chuckie Finster is the "Well Done, Son" Guy (sorta) of Agent Elrond and the Warden from The Green Mile .
Babel : Tyler Durden and his wife Galadriel get shot at while on vacation in the Middle East while the audience learns that everything is connected.
Back to The Future : Reverend Jim invents a time machine, which Alex P. Keaton uses to go back in time, where he must ensure that his parents, Willy Grendel and Caroline in The City get together. In the sequel, Alex shows off his video game skills to a young Frodo Baggins .
Bad Liutenant Port Of Call New Orleans : The Ghost Rider makes up for his previous cop role by making a movie on drugs (not really).
Bad Teacher : Princess Fiona is a Manipulative Bitch out to score a meal ticket, first with Nick Andopolis than with her cousin Artie .
Bandits : Notorious bank robbing duo Jigo and John McClane find themselves saddled with willing hostage Galadriel .
Batman : Lando's war on crime starts a chain of events which lead to the climactic battle between Beetlejuice and R.P.McMurphy over the fate of Eminem's mom.
Batman Returns : Arnold's Twinbrother , a former lawyer , teams up with Leonardo DiCaprio's Dad , a former Bond Villain , while his Secretary, a witch , dates Beetlejuice.
Batman and Robin : Danny Ocean teams up with Finn Dandridge to fight against The Terminator and The Bride , while trying to find a cure for a disease Ambrose D'Arcy contracted, whilst also dealing with his niece, Cher Horovitz .
Batman Forever : Gay Perry battles Agent K and Fletcher Reed while dating Virginia Woolf and taking in Charlie Simms . Gertie (who's all grown up ) is one of K's lovers, and Constable Odo has a small role as a psychiatrist.
Batman Begins : An American Psycho teams up with God , Nigel Powers , and Sirius Black to fight Qui-Gon Jinn and a zombie holocaust survivor who was once the CEO of the most powerful energy conglomerate before getting the idea to split up the company , saving Joey in the process.
Batman Beyond :Return of the Joker : Eric Matthews battles Luke Skywalker
Battleship : Gambit , Rihanna , Aslan , and Eric Northman find themselves in the middle of an alien invasion.
Beastly : In this Younger and Hipper retelling of Beauty and The Beast , Gabrielle meets the horribly cursed (but still remarkably good-looking ) Number Four after he's been hexed by Lil' Michelle Tanner . Barney , and Nate also star.
The Beaver : Rocky the rooster is a depressed toy manufacturer who expresses his feelings through a Cockney-accented beaver puppet. Directed by Clarice Starling .
Bedtime Stories : Happy Gilmore is a repairman at a hotel that once belonged to his father Governor Swann , but is now owned by Vernon Dursley 's hotel empire. Vernon plans to put Leonard in charge of a new hotel, despite a promise that he'd let Happy do it. But when Happy points out that Leonard's plan for this hotel has been done before , he decides to give Happy a chance to show his worth. Meanwhile, the school where Happy's sister Monica is principal is closing down, so she asks him to babysit her children at night, alternating with Felicity Porter in the day. To pass the time, Happy tells bedtime stories , which soon start influencing reality. Also stars Aldous Snow as Happy's Cloudcuckoolander bellboy friend, Xena as Leonard's assistant and lover, and Number Six as a hotel heiress with frequent brushes with the tabloids .
Beetlejuice : Thelma is married to The Shadow and end up becoming ghosts after a freak car accident. Their home is invaded by a family consisting of Principal Rooney , his wife Kate Mcallister , and their daughter Kim Boggs along with the new family's interior decorator The Mayor of Halloweentown . The ghostly couple hires Batman to exorcise the living from their house, despite the Grandma from Mars Attacks (Film) warning them not to.
Beginners : Young Obi Wan Kenobi 's dad, Lawrence of Arabia , comes out of the closet after his wife's death; meanwhile Obi Wan's starting a relationship with the lovely Shoshanna . Sadly his dad gets diagnosed with terminal cancer at the same time. Based on the director's experiences with his own dad.
Bend It Like Beckham : Elizabeth Swann and Dr. Neela fall for coach Steerpike .
Beowulf : Sweeney Todd (the BBC TV movie one) is tasked by Hannibal Lector to kill George McFly . Todd does so, but is seduced by McFly's mother, Lara Croft . Later on, this comes back to bite him (literally) when the product of that liaison attacks his wives, Princesses Buttercup and Nausicaa .
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel : Queen Elizabeth II , Captain Davy Jones , Professor Macgonagal , and General Fromm check into a hotel run by Prince Jamal .
The Best Of Times : Mork convinces Snake Plissken to help him play the big high school football game again.
A Better Life : Esteban Reyes is an illegal immigrant who wants said life for his son.
Bicentennial Man : Dr. Alan Grant buys robot Mork as a household helper for his family consisting of first lady Grace Marshall and their daughters Georgie Jones Quartermaine and that girl from those late 90s/early 00s Pepsi commercials , who grows up to become Miss Honey . As he interacts more with his family, Mork shows signs of curiosity and creativity, and despite CEO Milton Waddams' fears, Alan nurtures Mork's gifts. His curiosity drives him to wonder if there are others like himself, which leads him to robot builder Carl Anheuser and his own robot Nora Huntington . As Alan and Miss Honey inevitably grow older and pass on, Mork becomes determined to bridge the gap between man and machine in ensuring long life for all and a romantic relationship with Miss Honey's identical granddaughter . But will he ever get accepted by humanity? Also stars Eric Gordon as Miss Honey's son and the Chief as the future head of state.
Big Bully : Billy Fish is a divorced writer who returns to his hometown with his pissed off son and works at the school as a teacher. However, Billy meets his childhood bully, Stanley Stupid , who hasn't changed a bit.
Big Fish : Prince Ashitaka tries to connect with his estranged, dying father Willy Lowman (played in flashbacks by Obi Wan Kenobi ; flashback!mom is Nausicaa , present!mom is "Big" Edie Beale-Bouvier), and recalls his dad's strange tales of a were-Penguin and a mysterious, witchy pie maker .
Big Nothing : Scotty and Ross Geller are two telemarketers who get involved in a massive Gambit Pileup .
Big Trouble in Little China : "The Old Man" is Egg Chen, who recounts a tale of how Snake Pliskin saved Chinatown from that bitchy guy.
Billy Madison : Tired of his son Bobby Boucher's mindless antics, his hotel CEO father, the old man , threatens to give the company to Josh Lyman , unless Billy can go back to school and successfully pass all classes from elementary school to high school on his own. Along his way, he falls for his second grade teacher Sonya Blade . Also stars Tommy Callahan as a disgruntled bus driver, Mitch Weaver as one of Bobby's buddies and Mr. Pink as a former classmate of Bobby who saves him in the end .
The Birdcage : The Genie and Timon are gay partners who must pose straight in order to impress their son's fiancee, Ally McBeal 's, ultra-conservative Senator father, Lex Luthor . Moe Syzlak also stars as their manservant.
Black Hawk Down : Obi-Wan Kenobi , Legolas , Ari Gold , Jaime Lannister , The Hulk , and Lucius Malfoy try to fight their way out of Mogadishu.
Black Snake Moan : Wednesday Van Tassel is a deeply troubled woman who is found by equally-troubled ex-preacher Jules Winnfield after her creative gift-giver boyfriend ships off to war.
Black Swan : Evee is a prima ballerina who's threatened by newcomer Meg Griffin and has zero chemistry with the future father of her child . She later dons some seriously freaky red contacts . Spock's mom is the ex-prima who was seemingly abandoned by their lecherous director, The Night Fox .
Blade Trinity : Willy Mays Hays is a vampire-human hybrid and his mission is to destroy all of the world's vampires; normally, he works alone, but Deadpool and Mary Camden join forces with him. Lincoln Burroughs is the world's biggest, baddest vampire , and two people from those Christopher Guest mockumentaries try to help him take over the world...or something (it's not very clear).
Blade Runner : Han Solo and his mysterious "ally" Bill Adama hunt rogue robots that include Elle Driver the Mermaid and Cardinal Roark Twenty Minutes Into the Future .
Blades of Glory : Ron Burgundy and Napoleon Dynamite are ice skaters who are thrown out of their league after a fight. Desperate to skate, they discover a loophole that could allow them to compete — as partners . They recruit disgraced coach Mr. Incredible to help them. Meanwhile, their biggest rivals are a Gwen Stefani fangirl and her beloved brother (don't worry they're married IRL), who treat their sister Pam as their maid/assistant/secretary/pack animal .
The Blind Side : The "Lion King" guy is a disadvantaged, homeless youth who's taken in by Annie Porter and Charles Billingsley (who, thankfully, has mellowed out a bit).
Blue Valentine : A murderer and Mrs. Del Mar fall in and out of love. Also, apparently a guy going down on a girl is less acceptable to the MPAA than two girls doing the same thing (sorry to disappoint, but neither involves nudity).
Bobby (oh where to begin... ) A red-haired mean girl gets married to Frodo , Mr. Tibbs works for Hannibal Lecter , who runs the Ambassador Hotel, where Charlie's fallen Angel sings in the lounge (she's managed by the coach of The Mighty Ducks (who also directed the movie) and is assisted by the rich kid from Rushmore ). Sam Witwicky is a buzzed-out young Democrat while Charlie Epps and a guy who went Into the Wild are drug-dealing hippies. Meanwhile, Morpheus is given Dodgers tickets by an ambitious young undertaker , who helps comfort a dying Bobby Kennedy. this might be mixed up as I didn't see the whole thing; also, Frodo, Sam, the red-headed fairy from Fern Gully and the wife from Mad About You all get injured during the assassination
The Book of Eli : An American Gangster who's Walking the Earth finds a mysterious book that Dracula Zorg greatly desires. Jackie Griffin also stars.
The Borrowers : Professor Slughorn and Draco Malfoy are living together, but Mr. Weasley and Dan Conner plan to knock down their house. Dr. House keeps getting in the way.
Bound : The bride of Chucky and Cristal Connors foil Cypher's plot to steal from his mob bosses, one of whose son is an Axe Crazy Elliot Stabler .
The Bounty Hunter : Exes Rachel and Leonides have to endure some Chained Heat .
The Bourne Identity : Will Cauldwell is an amnesiac Super Soldier who just wants to be left alone but his former superior Col. Stryker wants him back dead or alive (preferably dead, at the hands of fellow super assassin Mr. Smith ). Will will eventually be replaced by a serial killing , bomb defusing , bank robbing , secret agent (I think he'll do just fine). The delusional Hulk is also there.
Bowfinger : Navin R. Johnson is a small-time filmmaker hoping to make the big time. When he meets with studio executive Tony Stark , he's told if he gets superstar Axel Foley onboard Navin's movie, Tony will distribute it. But Axel wants nothing to do with Navin's movie. But already with a cast and crew, which includes aspiring actress Felicity Shagwell , Navin decides to shoot the movie without Axel's awareness. General Zod also stars as Axel's advisor at an organization that is, in no way, similar to the Church of Scien — er, Happyology .
The Box : Financially desparate couple Mary and Cyclops are offered a Sadistic Choice by Perry White (who looks a bit like BTAS!JonahHex ): press button, recive money — and an Innocent Bystander dies!
Braveheart : Very Loosely Based on a True Story , to put it mildly: Martin Riggs is a Scotsman who leads the Scottish revolution against English King Number 6 . Elektra King also stars as the Princess of Wales .
Bride Wars : Mia Thermopolis and Penny Lane are childhood best friends who dream of their respective wedding days. When a clerical error schedules the wedding days of both brides-to-be on the same day, a rivalry develops and Hilarity Ensues .
Brideshead Revisited : Comely commoner Adrian Veidt falls for his best friend's sister Adult!Bryony while his best friend (supposedly ) falls for him; the siblings' grandparents, Sybille Trelawny and Dumbledore 2.0 do not approve.
Bridesmaids : Tuffnut the viking is having a rough week. She loses her business, gets kicked out by her roommates Tweedledee and his sister, her boyfriend Don Draper is a jerk, and her best friend Rita the hooker has asked her to be her maid of honor. Now she has deal with the snooty Jackie Q and larger-than-life Sookie (not that one , and that's her husband she's harassing on the plane).
Bring It On : A series of films in which Mary Jane Watson , Faith Lehane , Haley James Scott , Kairi , Hanna Marin , Lauren Tanner and Linda Moon are cheerleaders. That's all you have to know.
Brokeback Mountain : Donnie Darko and The Joker fall in love, but it being The Sixties they're Star-Crossed Lovers . Donnie marries a beleaguered assistant while The Joker marries... his own future Real Life (ex-)wife.
Brooklyn's Finest : Blade is a drug dealer, his buddy War Machine and not-Eugene are undercover cops, and Billy Flynn is also a cop.
Brothers : Peter Parker , Jack Twist , and Padme Amidala have to sort out their relationships when Jack and Padme learn Peter (Padme's husband) isn't dead.
The Brothers Grimm : Jason Bourne and The Joker are con-artist demon hunters who discover All Myths Are True and run afoul of dark Queen Persephone .
Bruce Almighty : Ace Ventura is granted god-like powers by Lucius Fox , which he then uses to make things right with his girlfriend Rachel .
Bunraku : Genesis Rhapsodos and Slevin team up to fight The Lich.
Buried : The Green Lantern is captured, held for ransom and buried in a coffin somewhere in Iraq, with only a dying cell phone for communication (and he's not gonna like how his superiors decide to handle this ).
Burlesque : Xtina is a fresh-faced waitress who discovers Loretta and Mr Harvey's burlesque club. Nightcrawler also stars.
Burn After Reading : John Malkovich gets downsized by the CIA and threatens to tell all. His wife Jadis takes steps to make sure she gets full alimony from him, and enlists the help of her lover Doug Ocean . Marge Gunderson and Tyler Durden get mixed up in blackmail.
Burning Palms :
Burt Wonderstone : Bruce and Evan (or Ace and Michael if you prefer) are dueling magicians.
↑ Or at least their body double