Tropescilloscope: All There in the Script

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Military and Warfare Films Blackmail Never My Fault Sequel Escalation Arch-Enemy The Casanova Broken Aesop Refuge in Audacity Pretty Little Headshots Fan Disservice Empathic Environment Meaningful Background Event The Starscream The X of Y Captain Ersatz You Have Failed Me Cool Shades Contrived Coincidence Pet the Dog Police Brutality Red Right Hand Be Careful What You Wish For Retirony Combat Pragmatist Documentary Big Brother Instinct Bond One-Liner Expository Hairstyle Change Artistic License – History French Films Taking You with Me Straight Gay O.O.C. Is Serious Business Darker and Edgier Age Lift folderlabel Gorn Stylistic Suck Sole Survivor Anguished Declaration of Love Camera Abuse Defrosting Ice Queen Properly Paranoid Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Badass Grandpa A Minor Kidroduction Big Applesauce Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Daylight Horror Bilingual Bonus Informed Ability Big "NO!" Does Not Like Shoes Dark Action Girl Call-Back Pretty in Mink Despair Event Horizon Early-Bird Cameo The Dreaded Thriller Closed Circle Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! The Remake Shirtless Scene No Antagonist Sinister Minister Redemption Equals Death Dirty Cop Honor Before Reason Rape as Drama Show Within a Show It's All About Me Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Destination Defenestration Chekhov's Gunman Call-Forward Hell Is That Noise Red Herring Butt-Monkey Action Girl Pragmatic Adaptation Death by Adaptation All There in the Manual Your Head A-Splode The Place Enemy Mine Villain with Good Publicity The Quiet One Roaring Rampage of Revenge Children Are Innocent Off with His Head! Fat Bastard British Films Your Cheating Heart Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Guile Hero Death Seeker Sadistic Choice Genre Savvy Flipping the Bird Race Against the Clock Product Placement Mad Scientist Imagine Spot Manic Pixie Dream Girl A.I. Is a Crapshoot Plucky Comic Relief Dying Moment of Awesome He Who Fights Monsters Driven to Suicide War Is Hell All Just a Dream Recycled IN SPACE! Not Quite Dead Left the Background Music On Manly Tears Alas, Poor Villain Disproportionate Retribution Older Than They Look Neck Lift Knight Templar Silence Is Golden Rule of Three Redshirt Army Disappeared Dad The End... Or Is It? Those Two Bad Guys Flashback No-Sell Suspiciously Specific Denial Fanservice Extra Genre Shift Death of a Child "Shaggy Dog" Story Parental Substitute Playing Gertrude Didn't Think This Through Toplessness from the Back Real Life Writes the Plot Very Loosely Based on a True Story Mercy Kill Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Actor Allusion Cat Fight Leitmotif Papa Wolf Cassandra Truth Male Gaze As Himself What the Hell, Hero? 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Parental Neglect Aluminum Christmas Trees Television Movie Index Author Avatar Double-Meaning Title Defiant to the End Would Hurt a Child The Vamp Bar Brawl Let's Get Dangerous! Romantic Comedy Stepford Smiler Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Punch-Clock Villain Tranquil Fury How We Got Here Rich Bitch Break the Cutie Here We Go Again! Fingore Kids Are Cruel Mind Screw Ironic Echo Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Grey and Gray Morality Genre Throwback Only Sane Man Canadian Movies Man on Fire He Knows Too Much Aside Glance Irony Bloodier and Gorier Brick Joke Vomit Discretion Shot Earn Your Happy Ending Real Life Foil Spell My Name with an "S" Narrator Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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The Smart Guy Demoted to Extra Immune to Bullets Psychological Thriller Put on a Bus Bare Your Midriff Historical Villain Upgrade Foreshadowing Country Matters Badass Boast Riddle for the Ages Re-Cut The Ditz Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Lighter and Softer Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Alpha Bitch Ax-Crazy Cloudcuckoolander More Dakka Cool Old Guy Love at First Sight Our Vampires Are Different Nice Hat Rasputinian Death Big Bad Duumvirate Works Set in World War II Male Frontal Nudity Danny Peary Cult Movies List Wicked Cultured Villain Ball All Girls Want Bad Boys Historical Hero Upgrade Plot Hole Mythology Gag Funny Background Event 20 Minutes into the Future Even Evil Has Loved Ones Poor Communication Kills Reality Has No Subtitles A Date with Rosie Palms Laughing Mad Soft Glass Shower Scene Every Car Is a Pinto Obfuscating Stupidity Dies Wide Open No Name Given Homage Made of Iron The Reveal Alliterative Name Not So Above It All Nothing Is Scarier Beware the Nice Ones Big Damn Heroes Action Prologue Historical-Domain Character Artistic License – Gun Safety Creator Cameo True Companions Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Science Fiction Films And Starring Improvised Weapon Only One Name Eldritch Abomination Russian Films Chekhov's Gun Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Psycho for Hire Good Is Not Nice The Oner Epic Fail Belligerent Sexual Tension Betty and Veronica '80s Hair Evil Plan Fainting Heroic Sacrifice Affably Evil "Awesome McCool" Name Breaking the Fourth Wall Hero Antagonist Happily Married You Killed My Father Jump Scare Married to the Job Parental Abandonment Curb-Stomp Battle Novelization Heel–Face Turn Improbable Aiming Skills The Sociopath One-Man Army The Dog Bites Back Fire-Forged Friends Covers Always Lie All There in the Script Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Hypocrite Frame-Up Kick the Dog Police are Useless Becoming the Mask No OSHA Compliance Anti-Hero Based on a True Story Unusually Uninteresting Sight The Power of Love Better to Die than Be Killed Hoist by His Own Petard Romantic False Lead An Aesop Hypocritical Humor Gilligan Cut Black Comedy Ms. Fanservice Shout-Out Outrun the Fireball Adaptation Distillation Hollywood Darkness Silent Movie Scenery Porn Grievous Bottley Harm My Beloved Smother The Hero Brother–Sister Incest Crazy Jealous Guy Hero of Another Story Anachronism Stew Evil Sounds Deep Mystery and Detective Films Oh, Crap! 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Dark Is Not Evil Curse Cut Short Well-Intentioned Extremist Superhero Horror Films Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Vampire Fiction Chiaroscuro Missing Mom She's Got Legs Adult Fear Scare Chord Visual Pun Smug Snake The Voiceless Japanese Films Facial Horror Adaptational Heroism Serial Killer Drugs Are Bad Film Noir Index Unspoken Plan Guarantee Action Survivor Skewed Priorities Market-Based Title Chase Scene Bolivian Army Ending Ambiguously Gay All Men Are Perverts Slasher Smile Villain Protagonist Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! One Steve Limit Not Even Bothering with the Accent Auto Erotica Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Air-Vent Passageway Leaning on the Fourth Wall Comically Missing the Point Badass in a Nice Suit Made of Explodium Scenery Gorn Author Appeal Unreliable Narrator Light Is Not Good "Well Done, Son!" 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Fourth Date Marriage As Long as It Sounds Foreign Only a Flesh Wound Central Theme In Name Only Vitriolic Best Buds Agony of the Feet Big-Bad Ensemble The Lancer Last-Name Basis Offscreen Moment of Awesome Bunny-Ears Lawyer Setting Update Italian Films Gratuitous English Abhorrent Admirer Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Epilogue Advertised Extra Armor-Piercing Question Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Drowning My Sorrows Arc Words Drives Like Crazy Fiery Redhead Developing Doomed Characters Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Undying Loyalty The Mole Dutch Angle German Films Anti-Villain Major Injury Underreaction Evil Laugh Diabolus ex Machina Authority Equals Asskicking Ominous Latin Chanting From Nobody to Nightmare She Cleans Up Nicely Green-Eyed Monster After the End Vomit Indiscretion Shot Whole Plot Reference Parental Incest Chewing the Scenery Precision F-Strike Red Oni, Blue Oni Kubrick Stare The Faceless Random Events Plot Spiritual Successor Annoying Younger Sibling Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Accidental Murder Title Drop Bait-and-Switch Karma Houdini Heterosexual Life-Partners Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie May–December Romance Dramedy Say My Name Evil Brit Gainax Ending Line-of-Sight Name Fanservice Antagonist Title Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Badass Normal Maybe Ever After Have a Gay Old Time Guns Akimbo Fatal Flaw Small Name, Big Ego Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Double Entendre Zombie Stories Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Depraved Bisexual Meaningful Name Beta Couple Funny Foreigner Sexy Discretion Shot Not So Different Back from the Dead MacGuffin Disney Villain Death Sealed Evil in a Can Loophole Abuse Ship Tease Implacable Man Killed Mid-Sentence An Arm and a Leg The Bully Ripped from the Headlines Failed a Spot Check Eagleland Really Gets Around Off-into-the-Distance Ending Love Triangle Broken Bird Same Language Dub Make It Look Like an Accident Bad Boss Victoria's Secret Compartment Reality Is Unrealistic In Medias Res Adapted Out Adaptation Expansion Getting Crap Past the Radar The Alcoholic Mighty Whitey Naïve Newcomer Noodle Incident Artistic License – Law Ambiguous Ending Naked People Are Funny Large Ham Deliberately Monochrome Pre-Mortem One-Liner It Can Think Ungrateful Bastard Drill Sergeant Nasty Reckless Gun Usage Mama Bear Heroes Want Redheads Four-Temperament Ensemble Bottomless Magazines Wretched Hive Crazy-Prepared My Greatest Failure Politically Incorrect Villain Rated M for Manly Canon Foreigner Corpsing Moment Killer Knife Nut Karmic Death Hong Kong Films Humans Are Bastards The Load Rule of Cool Serious Business Hope Spot Evil-Detecting Dog Obviously Evil There Is No Kill Like Overkill I Have Your Wife Bullying a Dragon Punny Name I Did What I Had to Do Red Shirt Film Noir For Want of a Nail Accidental Misnaming Stalker with a Crush Actually Pretty Funny Brainless Beauty Fake Shemp Animated Credits Opening Self-Deprecation The Atoner Film Series An Axe to Grind Break the Haughty Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Stealth Pun Sir Swears-a-Lot Arranged Marriage Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Dressing as the Enemy Take a Third Option Vacation Films Berserk Button Revenge Artistic License – Military The Un-Reveal Morality Pet Dropped a Bridge on Him Only Known by Their Nickname Taking the Bullet Pimped-Out Dress Dumb Blonde The Chick No Celebrities Were Harmed Animal Motifs Logo Joke Cat Scare Unresolved Sexual Tension Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Awesome, but Impractical Non-Indicative Name The '80s Cold-Blooded Torture Dark and Troubled Past Dirty Coward I Need a Freaking Drink Famous Last Words Eureka Moment Evil Is Hammy Badass Bookworm Death by Irony Historical In-Joke Scary Black Man Costume Porn Spanner in the Works Black Dude Dies First Chekhov's Skill Domestic Abuse Overprotective Dad Daddy's Girl Camp Gay Black Comedy Rape Room Full of Crazy Mexican Standoff Card-Carrying Villain Shipper on Deck Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Affectionate Parody Early Installment Weirdness