Tropescilloscope: Ambiguously Gay
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And the Adventure Continues
Betty and Veronica
Defrosting Ice Queen
Last-Name Basis
Enemy Mine
Alpha Bitch
Hoist by His Own Petard
La Résistance
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Break the Haughty
Only Known by Their Nickname
Sealed Evil in a Can
Bland-Name Product
Epic Fail
Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Properly Paranoid
How We Got Here
Disney Death
Man on Fire
Rousing Speech
Easily Forgiven
Adaptation Dye-Job
My God, What Have I Done?
Gory Discretion Shot
Translation Convention
Immune to Bullets
Off-into-the-Distance Ending
Those Two Guys
Boom, Headshot!
Big Applesauce
Big-Bad Ensemble
From Nobody to Nightmare
Bait-and-Switch
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
Not So Above It All
Ironic Echo
Pragmatic Villainy
Overly Long Gag
Chase Scene
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
Black Comedy
Eureka Moment
The Dreaded
Bowdlerise
Your Cheating Heart
Abhorrent Admirer
After the End
Anguished Declaration of Love
Meaningful Background Event
Fun with Acronyms
Dwindling Party
Artistic License Geography
Action Girl
Vomit Discretion Shot
Karmic Death
Stuff Blowing Up
Adaptation Name Change
Dutch Angle
As the Good Book Says...
Shipper on Deck
Breaking the Fourth Wall
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Protagonist Title
Reasonable Authority Figure
Brainless Beauty
Retcon
Suspiciously Specific Denial
Heroes Want Redheads
Dark Action Girl
Meet Cute
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Badass Bookworm
Bond One-Liner
Double Entendre
Fan Disservice
Race Lift
Australian Movies
Artistic License Military
Cat Fight
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
The Smart Guy
Would Hurt a Child
Fake Shemp
Never Found the Body
Body Horror
Line-of-Sight Name
Becoming the Mask
Television Movie Index
Your Head A-Splode
Adaptational Heroism
Getting Crap Past the Radar
The Hero Dies
Psychopathic Manchild
MayDecember Romance
Unspoken Plan Guarantee
Daylight Horror
Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
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Small Name, Big Ego
Fatal Flaw
Meaningful Name
Reality Is Unrealistic
Sci-Fi Horror
Asshole Victim
Gorn
Evil-Detecting Dog
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Victoria's Secret Compartment
Artistic License History
"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Wicked Cultured
Guns Akimbo
Match Cut
Film Noir
Gold Digger
The Load
Reality Ensues
Historical Villain Upgrade
Twist Ending
Damsel in Distress
Death by Irony
Wham Line
Say My Name
Evil Counterpart
Creepy Child
Alas, Poor Villain
Kids Are Cruel
All Girls Want Bad Boys
Death of a Child
The Film of the Book
Trailers Always Spoil
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
Horror Films
Parental Abandonment
Sequel Escalation
O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Shout-Out
Pretty Little Headshots
Drill Sergeant Nasty
Worthy Opponent
Mystery and Detective Films
Needs Wiki Magic Love
Improvised Weapon
Mind Screw
Soundtrack Dissonance
Adaptation Distillation
Neck Lift
Department of Redundancy Department
Our Vampires Are Different
Film Noir Index
Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Arch-Enemy
Black Dude Dies First
Captain Ersatz
Dies Wide Open
Actor Allusion
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience
Biopic
I Did What I Had to Do
Have a Gay Old Time
Loads and Loads of Characters
Jerk Jock
Blatant Lies
Reckless Gun Usage
Those Two Bad Guys
Accidental Murder
Femme Fatale
Peek-a-Boo Corpse
Expy
Big Damn Heroes
Not Even Bothering with the Accent
Crazy-Prepared
Hypocrite
An Arm and a Leg
Psychological Thriller
Get Out!
The Lancer
The Brute
Mugging the Monster
Not Quite Dead
Five-Man Band
Tempting Fate
Awesome, but Impractical
Gratuitous English
Light Is Not Good
Large Ham
Superhero
Spell My Name with an "S"
Show Within a Show
Sports Stories
Throwing Your Sword Always Works
Sexy Discretion Shot
Vampire Fiction
Dramatic Gun Cock
Slasher Smile
The Bully
Ass Shove
Naïve Newcomer
Crazy Jealous Guy
Badass Grandpa
Does This Remind You of Anything?
Take a Third Option
Deadpan Snarker
Deliberately Monochrome
Closed Circle
Improbable Weapon User
Mama Bear
Dirty Old Man
The Dragon
Annoying Younger Sibling
Artistic License Physics
Eagleland
Fate Worse than Death
Overprotective Dad
Heroic BSoD
Naked People Are Funny
Dumb Blonde
Foregone Conclusion
Token Minority
The Smurfette Principle
The Bad Guy Wins
No OSHA Compliance
Ominous Latin Chanting
Face Death with Dignity
Smoking Is Cool
Mood Whiplash
Despair Event Horizon
Genre Savvy
Sanity Slippage
The X of Y
Christmas Movies Index
Stealth Hi/Bye
Fingore
Corrupt Corporate Executive
Agony of the Feet
Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold
The Hero
Slashed Throat
Adaptational Villainy
Defiant to the End
Room Full of Crazy
Took a Level in Badass
Slasher Movie
Nice Hat
Happily Married
Greater-Scope Villain
Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Due to the Dead
Self-Deprecation
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
All There in the Script
Adults Are Useless
The Un-Favourite
aka: The Un Favorite
Black and Gray Morality
Only Sane Man
Martial Arts Movie
This Is Gonna Suck
Four-Temperament Ensemble
Hero of Another Story
Evil Laugh
Establishing Character Moment
Evil Brit
Jitter Cam
Authority Equals Asskicking
Adaptational Badass
She's Got Legs
Monumental Damage
Soft Glass
Too Dumb to Live
Eyepatch of Power
Lighter and Softer
Hong Kong Films
Sequel Hook
The Musical
Informed Ability
Dissonant Serenity
Depraved Bisexual
Cool Guns
Broken Pedestal
Facial Horror
Dark Reprise
Take That!
Actually Pretty Funny
What You Are in the Dark
Cowboy Cop
Male Gaze
Anti-Villain
Idiot Ball
Country Matters
Madness Mantra
Paper-Thin Disguise
Exact Words
Intrepid Reporter
Bar Brawl
Bound and Gagged
Retired Badass
Maybe Ever After
Not So Stoic
Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
Darkest Hour
Coming-of-Age Story
The Voiceless
Bullying a Dragon
Running Gag
Gainax Ending
The Remake
Insane Troll Logic
Manly Tears
Deus ex Machina
Zombie Stories
Blackmail
Scenery Porn
Bottomless Magazines
Hate Sink
Chekhov's Gunman
Big Eater
Plot Hole
Here We Go Again!
All for Nothing
Attempted Rape
German Films
Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Flipping the Bird
Put on a Bus
The '70s
An Axe to Grind
Brick Joke
Death by Adaptation
Villain with Good Publicity
Setting Update
Revenge
The Alcoholic
The Dog Bites Back
Stock Footage
No Name Given
Real Life
The Cameo
MacGuffin
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!
Vacation Films
Deal with the Devil
Motor Mouth
The Chessmaster
Offscreen Moment of Awesome
Early-Bird Cameo
The Chick
Ghost Fiction
Stalker with a Crush
Mr. Fanservice
Hero Antagonist
Market-Based Title
Expository Hairstyle Change
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Mooks
Gone Horribly Right
Shell-Shocked Veteran
Malevolent Masked Men
Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
Hollywood Law
Rape as Drama
Crapsack World
Action Survivor
Book-Ends
Villain Opening Scene
Evil Is Petty
Call-Forward
Canon Foreigner
Horror Comedy
Make It Look Like an Accident
The Ghost
Precision F-Strike
Genre Shift
Big Fancy House
Hypocritical Humor
FaceHeel Turn
Re-Cut
Ambiguous Disorder
Half the Man He Used to Be
Mighty Whitey
Action Genre
Belligerent Sexual Tension
Mexican Standoff
The Sociopath
Serious Business
World of Ham
Only One Name
Taking You with Me
Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
Shut Up, Hannibal!
Scary Black Man
Laughing Mad
Freudian Excuse
Ripped from the Headlines
Drowning My Sorrows
Thriller
He Who Fights Monsters
Storming the Castle
Random Events Plot
Woman in White
Badass Normal
Broken Aesop
Historical Hero Upgrade
Roaring Rampage of Revenge
It Can Think
It's All About Me
Stepford Smiler
Sassy Black Woman
Heel Realization
Friend to All Children
Evil Sounds Deep
Demoted to Extra
Toilet Humour
aka: Toilet Humor
Pay Evil unto Evil
Once More, with Clarity!
Bloody Hilarious
Anti-Hero
Chewing the Scenery
Taking the Bullet
Corpsing
Auto Erotica
Wretched Hive
Continuity Nod
Insistent Terminology
Artistic License Law
What Happened to the Mouse?
An Aesop
Green-Eyed Monster
Intergenerational Friendship
Older Than They Look
Camp Gay
Pimped-Out Dress
Morality Pet
Obstructive Bureaucrat
Creator Cameo
Death Glare
Jerkass Has a Point
Wounded Gazelle Gambit
The Mafia
Sole Survivor
Shirtless Scene
Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Visual Pun
Killed Mid-Sentence
Implacable Man
Contrived Coincidence
Bilingual Bonus
Drives Like Crazy
Romantic False Lead
Music Stories
Double-Meaning Title
Dropped a Bridge on Him
Ungrateful Bastard
Decoy Protagonist
Whole Plot Reference
Lock and Load Montage
Historical In-Joke
Didn't Think This Through
Downer Ending
Dirty Coward
The End... Or Is It?
Faking the Dead
Insult Backfire
Animated Credits Opening
Cool Shades
Obfuscating Stupidity
Kick the Dog
Deconstruction
The Ditz
Destination Defenestration
Famous Last Words
Sacrificial Lion
Animal Motifs
Slap-Slap-Kiss
Anachronism Stew
Dirty Cop
Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Dogged Nice Guy
Documentary
Military and Warfare Films
Advertised Extra
Improbable Infant Survival
aka: Infant Immortality
Silent Movie
Up to Eleven
Hollywood Darkness
Broken Bird
Big "NO!"
As You Know
"Well Done, Son!" Guy
Loophole Abuse
Only a Flesh Wound
It Will Never Catch On
Heroic Sacrifice
Beta Couple
Domestic Abuse
Bring My Brown Pants
Title Drop
Cat Scare
Darker and Edgier
Recycled IN SPACE!
Oh, Crap!
Armor-Piercing Question
Catch-Phrase
In the Back
Every Car Is a Pinto
Never My Fault
Bury Your Gays
Leaning on the Fourth Wall
You Killed My Father
Irony
Air-Vent Passageway
Truth in Television
Back from the Dead
Papa Wolf
The Faceless
Unreliable Narrator
Big Brother Instinct
Anachronic Order
Everyone Has Standards
Spared by the Adaptation
Plucky Comic Relief
Almost Kiss
Babies Ever After
Black Best Friend
Neck Snap
Beard of Evil
Foreshadowing
Pun
aka: Incredibly Lame Pun
Hooker with a Heart of Gold
Mythology Gag
Children Are Innocent
Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
Deliberate Values Dissonance
War Is Hell
Dying Moment of Awesome
A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Antagonist Title
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
Same Language Dub
Did Not Get the Girl
Conspicuous CG
Dull Surprise
For Want of a Nail
"Awesome McCool" Name
Chekhov's Skill
Sadistic Choice
Villain Song
Anyone Can Die
Animal Title Index
Punny Name
Pyrrhic Victory
Better to Die than Be Killed
Death Seeker
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Toplessness from the Back
No Celebrities Were Harmed
Russian Films
Off with His Head!
Red Herring
Aluminum Christmas Trees
Cain and Abel
Composite Character
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
Rule of Symbolism
Totally Radical
Scare Chord
Award-Bait Song
Stylistic Suck
Hope Spot
Kill 'em All
Tap on the Head
Amusing Injuries
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Fiery Redhead
Driven to Suicide
Amoral Attorney
Spanner in the Works
Straight Gay
Crucified Hero Shot
Stealth Pun
One-Word Title
The Vamp
Bare Your Midriff
Ship Tease
Training Montage
Villain Protagonist
Narrator
Male Frontal Nudity
Guile Hero
Bald of Evil
Laser-Guided Karma
Love at First Sight
Recap /
RiffTrax
aka: Riff Trax Movies
I Have Your Wife
Woman Scorned
Red Right Hand
Rasputinian Death
Important Haircut
Missing Mom
No Antagonist
Adult Fear
Parental Neglect
Final Girl
Death by Sex
Time Skip
As Himself
Be Careful What You Wish For
Noodle Incident
Covers Always Lie
Police Brutality
My Beloved Smother
Funny Background Event
Apocalypse How
B-Movie
Artistic License Gun Safety
Humiliation Conga
Henpecked Husband
Frame-Up
Badass Boast
The Un-Reveal
Gilligan Cut
Unresolved Sexual Tension
Wham Shot
Wrong Genre Savvy
Yandere
Alliterative Name
Redshirt Army
The Lost Lenore
Framing Device
Funny Foreigner
Super Strength
Skewed Priorities
Japanese Films
Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Ax-Crazy
The Stoic
Moment Killer
Big Bad
Creative Closing Credits
And Starring
Imagine Spot
Evil vs. Evil
Adapted Out
Comically Missing the Point
Star-Crossed Lovers
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Obviously Evil
Poor Communication Kills
Cloudcuckoolander
Shown Their Work
Pretty in Mink
Bolivian Army Ending
Disney Villain Death
Girl-on-Girl Is Hot
Card-Carrying Villain
Dual Wielding
Abusive Parents
Dark Is Not Evil
Redemption Equals Death
Nothing Is Scarier
Beware the Nice Ones
Kill It with Fire
The Casanova
For the Evulz
Bad Boss
Index of Film Westerns
Curse Cut Short
As Long as It Sounds Foreign
No-Sell
You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!
Disguised in Drag
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
She Cleans Up Nicely
Silence Is Golden
Instant Death Bullet
Together in Death
Casting Gag
He Knows Too Much
Hidden Depths
The Great Depression
What the Hell, Hero?
Car Fu
Mercy Kill
Canadian Movies
The Power of Love
Black Comedy Rape
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
The Cavalry
Our Zombies Are Different
Red Oni, Blue Oni
Public Domain Feature Films
Smug Snake
The '50s
A Father to His Men
Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
Developing Doomed Characters
The Reveal
Works Set in World War II
Rule of Cool
Butt-Monkey
Action Prologue
The Oner
Would Hit a Girl
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Villainous Breakdown
Novelization
Playing Gertrude
One Steve Limit
There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Left the Background Music On
Villain Ball
Fourth Date Marriage
The Atoner
Science Fiction Films
Cool Car
Eiffel Tower Effect
Married to the Job
Break the Cutie
The Stoner
Punch-Clock Villain
Based on a True Story
Video Credits
Grievous Bottley Harm
The Mole
The Big Guy
Affably Evil
A Minor Kidroduction
Those Wacky Nazis
Rich Bitch
Undying Loyalty
I Need a Freaking Drink
Refuge in Audacity
Determinator
Ascended Extra
Costume Porn
Nice Guy
The '90s
Politically Incorrect Villain
Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Eye Scream
Dramedy
Author Appeal
All There in the Manual
Extreme Doormat
Bi the Way
All Men Are Perverts
Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Demonic Possession
Cool Old Lady
Adorkable
Meaningful Echo
Major Injury Underreaction
Faux Affably Evil
Homage
Pragmatic Adaptation
Beauty Is Never Tarnished
Well-Intentioned Extremist
Dressing as the Enemy
The '60s
The Stinger
Men Are the Expendable Gender
Bond Villain Stupidity
Catapult Nightmare
Race Against the Clock
Ambiguously Gay
Sinister Minister
Freeze-Frame Bonus
Arranged Marriage
Berserk Button
Roger Ebert: Great Movies List
Retirony
Shower Scene
Determinator
aka: The Determinator
Artistic License Biology
Empathic Environment
Reality Has No Subtitles
The '80s
Fantasy Films
Handicapped Badass
Captain Obvious
Mistaken for Gay
Evil Is Hammy
Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Cassandra Truth
Failed a Spot Check
Interrupted Suicide
Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer
I'm a Humanitarian
BrotherSister Incest
Bloodier and Gorier
Cluster F-Bomb
Made of Iron
Fainting
The Alleged Car
One-Man Army
Jerkass
Disappeared Dad
Dramatic Irony
Let's Get Dangerous!
Fantastic Racism
Big Bad Duumvirate
N-Word Privileges
Vomit Indiscretion Shot
Film Series
The Starscream
Chiaroscuro
Credits Gag
BFG
Spiritual Successor
Italian Films
British Films
Mr. Exposition
Call-Back
Disproportionate Retribution
Knight Templar
Accidental Misnaming
Distracted by the Sexy
Red Shirt
Character Development
Adaptational Attractiveness
Bad "Bad Acting"
A Date with Rosie Palms
Suddenly SHOUTING!
My Greatest Failure
"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Leitmotif
Scenery Gorn
Blood Knight
Aside Glance
Not Using the "Z" Word
Blood from the Mouth
Unusual Euphemism
Rewatch Bonus
Non-Indicative Name
Mundane Made Awesome
Tagline
In Medias Res
Never Trust a Trailer
Arc Words
Bloodless Carnage
Heterosexual Life-Partners
Red Eyes, Take Warning
Not What It Looks Like
Age Lift
Even Evil Has Standards
French Films
Foil
Mad Scientist
Love Triangle
A God Am I
Parental Substitute
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
Sir Swears-a-Lot
From Bad to Worse
Manchild
Offscreen Teleportation
Hair-Trigger Temper
Product Placement
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Kick the Son of a Bitch
Police are Useless
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
Rule of Funny
Earn Your Happy Ending
Batman Gambit
"Shaggy Dog" Story
And I Must Scream
Spiteful Spit
Outrun the Fireball
The Ace
I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
Combat Pragmatist
It's Personal
HeelFace Turn
Adaptation Expansion
Camera Abuse
Fatal Family Photo
Took a Level in Jerkass
Lampshade Hanging
Kubrick Stare
You Have Failed Me
Fanservice Extra
Fanservice
20 Minutes into the Future
Riddle for the Ages
Calling the Old Man Out
Karma Houdini
Danny Peary Cult Movies List
Good Is Not Nice
Fat Bastard
Fish out of Water
Early Installment Weirdness
Cruel and Unusual Death
Shoot the Shaggy Dog
Author Avatar
Chekhov's Gun
Celebrity Paradox
Cold-Blooded Torture
Curb-Stomp Battle
Romantic Comedy
Hell Is That Noise
Grey and Gray Morality
True Companions
Cool Old Guy
Knife Nut
Badass Longcoat
Affectionate Parody
Manipulative Bastard
Really Gets Around
Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
Badass in a Nice Suit
Serial Killer
In Name Only
Made of Explodium
'80s Hair
Never Trust a Trailer
aka: Trailers Always Lie
Rule of Three
Tranquil Fury
Drugs Are Bad
Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism
Only in It for the Money
Bittersweet Ending
Honor Before Reason
Diabolus ex Machina
Improbable Aiming Skills
timeperiod
Gender Flip
Genre Throwback
Pet the Dog
Flashback
The Place
Does Not Like Shoes
Eldritch Abomination
Fire-Forged Friends
Dark and Troubled Past
Posthumous Character
More Dakka
All Just a Dream
Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
Parental Incest
No Ending
Humans Are Bastards
Ambiguous Ending
Jump Scare
Screw This, I'm Outta Here!
Logo Joke
Brutal Honesty
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
Groin Attack
The Quiet One
Vitriolic Best Buds
Central Theme
Real Life Writes the Plot
Epic Movie
Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Historical-Domain Character
Evil Plan
Psycho for Hire
Word of God
Ms. Fanservice
Daddy's Girl
Not So Different
Rated M for Manly
Extremely Short Timespan
Bavarian Fire Drill
NO INDOOR VOICE
Leave the Camera Running