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Trope (literature)
Trope (literature): originally a figure of speech (metaphor, metonymy, irony) from Greek tropos, 'turn'; broadly, any recurring character, plot, or setting pattern. Distinguished from motif, theme, and cliche; cataloged popularly by TV Tropes.
Tropes vs. Women in Video Games
Tropes vs. Women in Video Games is Anita Sarkeesian's Feminist Frequency YouTube video essay series (2013-2017) critiquing sexist tropes like damsel in distress; its Kickstarter raised $158,922 from about 6,968 backers.
Trophy Wife: Murder on Safari
Trophy Wife: Murder on Safari is a 2025 three-part ABC News Studios true-crime docuseries on Hulu, directed by Dani Sloane, about Pittsburgh dentist Larry Rudolph's 2016 Zambia safari murder of his wife Bianca and his conviction.
Tropic of Cancer (novel)
Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's 1934 semi-autobiographical Paris novel published by Obelisk Press with an Anaïs Nin preface, was banned in the US for 27 years until Grove Press's 1961 edition and the 1964 Supreme Court ruling in Grove Press v. Gerstein.
Tropic Thunder
Tropic Thunder is a 2008 American action comedy directed and co-written by Ben Stiller, starring Stiller, Jack Black, and Robert Downey Jr. as actors lost in a real jungle war.
Tropical house
Tropical house, or trop house, is a relaxed subgenre of deep house using steel drums, marimba, and pan flute, popularized in the mid-2010s by Kygo and Thomas Jack.
Tropical Malady (สัตว์ประหลาด)
Tropical Malady (Sud Pralad, สัตว์ประหลาด) is Apichatpong Weerasethakul's 2004 Thai diptych film: a gay romance between soldier Keng and villager Tong, then a jungle hunt for a tiger spirit. It won the 2004 Cannes Jury Prize.
Tropical Smoothie Cafe
Tropical Smoothie Cafe: American fast-casual smoothie and food franchise chain founded in Destin, Florida, in 1997 (first franchise Tallahassee, 1998), about 1,800 U.S. units in 44 states, ~$1M average unit volume, owned by Blackstone since 2024, CEO Max Wetzel.
Tropicália
Tropicália, also called Tropicalismo, was a Brazilian cultural movement of the late 1960s led by Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, ended by military repression in 1968.
Tropicana Products
Tropicana Products, also known as Tropicana Brands, is an American fruit-juice company founded by Anthony T. Rossi in Florida in 1947, best known for its chilled not-from-concentrate Pure Premium orange juice.
Tropico 7
Tropico 7 (Tropico series, seventh main entry) is a strategy-management-government sim by Gaming Minds Studios and Kalypso Media, announced at Gamescom 2025, releasing January 28, 2027 on PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PS5 with a Political Matrix, terraforming, and reworked military system.
Tropicoqueta
Tropicoqueta is Karol G's fifth studio album, released 20 June 2025 on Bichota: a 20-track pan-Latin record fusing reggaeton with merengue, salsa, bachata, mariachi, cumbia, and Brazilian funk, with guests Thalía, Marco Antonio Solís, and Manu Chao.
Tropiques
Tropiques was a literary and cultural review published in Fort-de-France, Martinique, from 1941 to 1945, founded by Aimé and Suzanne Césaire and blending surrealism, Negritude, and Marxism.
Trot (트로트) (music)
Trot (트로트, teuroteu; ppongjjak) is Korea's oldest popular music genre, formed during the Japanese colonial period under enka influence, defined by two-beat rhythm, pentatonic scales, and kkeokgi vocal bending, revived by TV audition shows.
Troubadour
Troubadours (Occitan: trobadors) were poet-composers of medieval Occitania in southern France who sang lyric poetry in Occitan, centered on the ideal of fin'amor, from the early 1100s into the 1300s.
Troubadour (West Hollywood, California)
The Troubadour, also known as Doug Weston's Troubadour, is a historic live music nightclub in West Hollywood, California, founded by Doug Weston in 1957 and known for launching careers.
Trouble (2024 film)
Trouble (Swedish: Strul) is a 2024 Swedish action comedy on Netflix, directed by Jon Holmberg, starring Filip Berg as an electronics salesman wrongfully convicted of murder; a remake of the 1988 cult film Strul with Björn Skifs.
Trouble (rapper)
Trouble (Mariel Semonte Orr, 1987-2022), Atlanta trap rapper also called Skoob or Trouble DTE; debut mixtape December 17th (2011), Mike WiLL-produced Edgewood (2018), killed in Conyers, Georgia, June 5, 2022.
Trouble Don't Last Always
Trouble Don't Last Always, also known as Euphoria Part 1: Rue, is the first of two Euphoria special episodes bridging seasons 1 and 2; a 2020 Christmas Eve diner conversation between Rue (Zendaya) and Ali (Colman Domingo), written and directed by Sam Levinson.
Trouble Every Day
Trouble Every Day, Claire Denis's 2001 French horror-romance film (also a France-Japan-Germany co-production), premiered out of competition at Cannes 2001, stars Vincent Gallo, Béatrice Dalle, and Tricia Vessey, with music by Tindersticks.
Trouble in Paradise (La Roux album)
Trouble in Paradise is La Roux's second album, released July 22, 2014 by Polydor/Interscope. Made by Elly Jackson with Ian Sherwin after Ben Langmaid's 2012 departure, it peaked at UK number 6, scored Metacritic 76, and preceded Jackson's 2015 drop from Polydor.
Trouble Maker (duo)
Trouble Maker (트러블 메이커) was a Cube Entertainment K-pop co-ed duo of Hyuna (4minute) and Jang Hyun-seung (BEAST), active 2011-2013 with the hits "Trouble Maker" and "Now".
Trouble Man (2025 film)
Trouble Man (2025) is an American action comedy crime film directed by and starring Michael Jai White as Atlanta PI Jaxen, hunting a missing R&B star; a semi-remake of the 1972 blaxploitation film, released August 1, 2025 by Samuel Goldwyn Films.
Troubled Blood
Troubled Blood (2020) is the fifth Cormoran Strike detective novel by Robert Galbraith, J.K. Rowling's pseudonym, following Strike and Robin Ellacott's cold-case investigation of Margot Bamborough's 1974 disappearance.
Troubled Laughter
Troubled Laughter (苦恼人的笑) is a 1979 Shanghai Film Studio drama directed by Yang Yanjin and Deng Yimin, a landmark Chinese "scar film" about a journalist imprisoned for telling the truth during the Cultural Revolution.
Troupeau Bleu
Troupeau Bleu is the 1975 debut album by French jazz-funk band Cortex, led by Alain Mion with Mireille Dalbray on vocals. Recorded in two days, it became a collector item and one of hip-hop's most sampled jazz albums via MF DOOM's One Beer.
Trousers
Trousers, or pants, are garments covering each leg separately from waist to ankles. Oldest known pair, from Yanghai, China, is about 3,300 years old, made for horse riding; adopted by men generally after the French Revolution and by women widely only in the 20th century.
Trout Mask Replica
Trout Mask Replica, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band's 1969 Straight Records double album produced by Frank Zappa, a 28-track experimental blues and free jazz landmark added to the National Recording Registry in 2010.
Trouvère
A trouvère was a poet-composer of northern France who wrote courtly songs in Old French from the mid-twelfth to the mid-fourteenth century, adapting the forms of the Occitan troubadours.
Troy (film)
Troy (2004) is Wolfgang Petersen's epic war film, written by David Benioff and loosely based on Homer's Iliad, starring Brad Pitt as Achilles and Eric Bana as Hector; it earned about $500 million worldwide and mixed reviews.