Tropescilloscope: Air-Vent Passageway

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In Name Only Jitter Cam Leave the Camera Running Fatal Flaw Psycho for Hire Five-Man Band Freeze-Frame Bonus Same Language Dub Car Fu Eiffel Tower Effect Taking You with Me Insane Troll Logic Improvised Weapon There Is No Kill Like Overkill Zombie Stories Eldritch Abomination Villain Protagonist Belligerent Sexual Tension Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Japanese Films Together in Death Death Glare Dies Wide Open Diabolus ex Machina The Reveal Video Credits Twist Ending Pimped-Out Dress Vampire Fiction Grey and Gray Morality Woman Scorned Bullying a Dragon Precision F-Strike Scare Chord Smoking Is Cool Kick the Dog Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Obstructive Bureaucrat Freudian Excuse Enemy Mine Beard of Evil Bring My Brown Pants Leitmotif Nice Guy The Great Depression The Mafia Epic Movie Your Cheating Heart Arch-Enemy Match Cut Dramedy Adult Fear Unusually Uninteresting Sight Spared by the Adaptation Drill Sergeant Nasty Neck Lift Deadpan Snarker Fantasy Films Bitch in Sheep's Clothing The Voiceless The Dog Bites Back Would Hit a Girl Department of Redundancy Department Closed Circle Cool Old Guy As the Good Book Says... 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