Sometimes, even movies start their share of tropes. These are the Trope Namers for films, both animated and live-action.
Star Wars has had so many tropes named after it, it has its own page.
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Animated Films
- Disney (in general)
- Disney (specific movies)
Live-action Films
- Back to the Future
- Can't Hold His Liquor
- Caught in the Ripple
- Delayed Ripple Effect
- Get Back to the Future
- If My Calculations Are Correct
- "Mister Sandman" Sequence
- Nobody Calls Me "Chicken"!
- Now I Know What to Name Him
- The Other Marty
- Right on the Tick
- Ripple Effect Indicator
- Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory
- We Don't Need Roads
- Write Back to the Future
- Batman (film continuities)
- Citizen Kane
- It Was His Sled (referenced by Family Guy)
- Digging To China
- Dude, Where's My Car?
- Dude, Where's My Respect?
- Dude, Where's My Reward?
- Dude, Where's Our Car? (though that one appears in The Big Lebowski too)
- Godzilla
- Bridezilla
- Godzilla Threshold
- Just Here for Godzilla
- Notzilla
- Rent-a-Zilla (Cross-reference with MegaTokyo)
James Bond
- Jaws
- Jaws: The Revenge
- Voodoo Shark (coined by Chuck Sonnenberg of SF Debris)
- The Little Rascals (started as a film serial)
- The Magnificent Seven
- The Magnificent Seven Samurai (Cross-reference with Seven Samurai)
Monty Python
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- And There Was Much Rejoicing
- Spun off from The Book of the Film, which was renamed to Novelization;
- The Coconut Effect
- Help! Help! This Index Is Being Repressed!
- Holy Hand Grenade
- Inherent in the System
- I Shall Taunt You
- Killer Rabbit
- Lady Not-Appearing-in-This-Game
- The Knights Who Say "Squee!"
- Not Quite Dead
- Only a Flesh Wound
- Only a Model
- Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer
- Some Call Me "Tim"
- These Questions Three...
- With This Herring
- Monty Python's Life of Brian
- Not Of This Earth
- One Million Years B.C.
- Slurpasaur (fandom term)
- Planet of the Apes
- Ape Shall Never Kill Ape
- Earth All Along (referenced in The Simpsons episode "A Fish Called Selma")
- Forbidden Zone
- Seven Samurai
- The Magnificent Seven Samurai (Cross-reference with The Magnificent Seven)
