Tropescilloscope: An Aesop

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