Tropescilloscope: An Aesop

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Death by Sex Put on a Bus Hollywood Darkness Leave the Camera Running Older Than They Look Reality Ensues Silence Is Golden The Alcoholic Abhorrent Admirer Dark Reprise Card-Carrying Villain Kubrick Stare Villain Song Belligerent Sexual Tension Black and Gray Morality Didn't Think This Through Camp Gay Manly Tears As You Know Babies Ever After Action Survivor The Power of Love Obstructive Bureaucrat Kill 'em All British Films Affably Evil The Starscream The Oner Catapult Nightmare Creepy Child Morality Pet Large Ham Evil Laugh Maybe Ever After You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Light Is Not Good No-Sell No OSHA Compliance Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Mooks Good Is Not Nice Determinator aka: The Determinator Based on a True Story Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Fantasy Films No Name Given Eiffel Tower Effect Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Shirtless Scene Have a Gay Old Time Historical In-Joke Intrepid Reporter Sanity Slippage Evil Sounds Deep Historical Villain Upgrade Those Two Bad Guys Crazy-Prepared Beta Couple Posthumous Character Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Tap on the Head More Dakka Brick Joke Cloudcuckoolander An Arm and a Leg Real Life Five-Man Band Evil Brit Irony He Knows Too Much Gainax Ending Frame-Up N-Word Privileges Unusual Euphemism Bunny-Ears Lawyer Smug Snake Australian Movies All Men Are Perverts Humiliation Conga My God, What Have I Done? Mad Scientist Small Name, Big Ego Only Known by Their Nickname Thriller Meet Cute Only One Name Bury Your Gays Badass in a Nice Suit Sequel Hook Sir Swears-a-Lot Continuity Nod timeperiod Artistic License – Biology Antagonist Title Those Two Guys Death Seeker Diabolus ex Machina Would Hurt a Child A.I. Is a Crapshoot Karmic Death No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Eyepatch of Power Canadian Movies Loophole Abuse Does Not Like Shoes Film Series Beard of Evil The Great Depression The Dreaded Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Vampire Fiction Vitriolic Best Buds Neck Snap Market-Based Title Annoying Younger Sibling Big Fancy House Redshirt Army Smoking Is Cool Bond Villain Stupidity Riddle for the Ages Nothing Is Scarier Plucky Comic Relief Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Made of Explodium Pretty in Mink Gilligan Cut Developing Doomed Characters Action Genre Double Entendre Face–Heel Turn Suspiciously Similar Substitute Anachronism Stew Character Development Outrun the Fireball Aside Glance The Film of the Book My Beloved Smother Roaring Rampage of Revenge Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Getting Crap Past the Radar Kids Are Cruel Super Strength Take That! Improvised Weapon The X of Y Central Theme Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Award-Bait Song Off with His Head! Re-Cut Blood from the Mouth Precision F-Strike Jerkass Has a Point Unwitting Instigator of Doom After the End Dirty Old Man Homage Room Full of Crazy Call-Back True Companions The Un-Reveal Rewatch Bonus Horror Comedy Jitter Cam Recycled IN SPACE! Dirty Coward Ironic Echo Race Lift Faking the Dead Retired Badass Half the Man He Used to Be Rousing Speech Groin Attack Daddy's Girl Rated M for Manly Mundane Made Awesome Black Dude Dies First Fourth Date Marriage Genre Shift No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Depraved Bisexual Shoot the Shaggy Dog Flipping the Bird Neck Lift Totally Radical Major Injury Underreaction Bound and Gagged Becoming the Mask Lampshade Hanging Noodle Incident Wrong Genre Savvy O.O.C. Is Serious Business Hero of Another Story Affectionate Parody Blatant Lies Improbable Weapon User Cool Car The Chessmaster Sinister Minister Unresolved Sexual Tension Anti-Villain Fanservice Extra Dropped a Bridge on Him Cool Old Lady Contrived Coincidence Henpecked Husband Badass Normal Amusing Injuries Deadpan Snarker Evil Is Petty Unreliable Narrator Bowdlerise Coming-of-Age Story Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Victoria's Secret Compartment The Casanova Silent Movie Artistic License – History Hidden Depths Action Prologue Determinator Face Death with Dignity Big Eater Hero Antagonist Poor Communication Kills Establishing Character Moment "Shaggy Dog" Story Break the Haughty Not So Different Back from the Dead Dogged Nice Guy Bar Brawl Creator Cameo The End... Or Is It? Rape as Drama Show Within a Show Gratuitous English Hoist by His Own Petard Leitmotif Papa Wolf Artistic License – Geography Chekhov's Skill Casting Gag Age Lift Overly Long Gag Military and Warfare Films Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Dark Action Girl Dramatic Gun Cock Lighter and Softer Villain Ball Genre Throwback Storming the Castle Dull Surprise Brutal Honesty Throwing Your Sword Always Works Self-Deprecation Naked People Are Funny Adaptation Dye-Job Running Gag Dying Moment of Awesome Air-Vent Passageway Bolivian Army Ending Mind Screw "Awesome McCool" Name Leaning on the Fourth Wall The '50s Department of Redundancy Department Deconstruction Needs Wiki Magic Love The Bully Adaptation Name Change What Happened to the Mouse? Fake Shemp NO INDOOR VOICE War Is Hell Distracted by the Sexy A God Am I Despair Event Horizon Genre Savvy Took a Level in Jerkass Blood Knight Real Life Writes the Plot Bloodless Carnage Big Applesauce folderlabel It Can Think Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Enemy Mine From Nobody to Nightmare Big Damn Heroes Index of Film Westerns Unspoken Plan Guarantee Actor Allusion Manipulative Bastard Obfuscating Stupidity Mystery and Detective Films Deliberate Values Dissonance The Reveal Even Evil Has Loved Ones This Is Gonna Suck Extremely Short Timespan Animated Credits Opening Adapted Out Body Horror Word of God Exactly What It Says on the Tin Product Placement Evil Is Hammy Time Skip Expository Hairstyle Change There Is No Kill Like Overkill One-Man Army Mr. Exposition Agony of the Feet Disney Death Heel Realization Everyone Has Standards Death of a Child Comically Missing the Point Not What It Looks Like Eureka Moment Adaptation Expansion Novelization Eagleland It's All About Me Stock Footage "Well Done, Son!" 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Obviously Evil Not Even Bothering with the Accent Cassandra Truth Epic Fail Bond One-Liner Narrator Better to Die than Be Killed Male Frontal Nudity Blonde, Brunette, Redhead It Will Never Catch On Villain Protagonist Cool Shades Downer Ending Alpha Bitch Not Quite Dead Spell My Name with an "S" Sci-Fi Horror Instant Death Bullet Make It Look Like an Accident Arranged Marriage An Aesop Stylistic Suck Animal Title Index Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Whole Plot Reference Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Star-Crossed Lovers Honor Before Reason A Minor Kidroduction Red Herring Dressing as the Enemy Ungrateful Bastard Take a Third Option Accidental Murder Scenery Gorn Apocalypse How Adorkable Beware the Nice Ones Calling the Old Man Out Butt-Monkey Due to the Dead Eye Scream She's Got Legs The Smart Guy Damsel in Distress Mercy Kill Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Disappeared Dad All There in the Script Not Using the "Z" Word Man on Fire The '80s Heroic BSoD Dwindling Party Bad "Bad Acting" Random Events Plot Spiteful Spit Killed Mid-Sentence Death Glare Bald of Evil Black Comedy Rape Offscreen Moment of Awesome Red Eyes, Take Warning German Films Actually Pretty Funny Shut Up, Hannibal! Alliterative Name Manchild From Bad to Worse Mr. Fanservice Alas, Poor Villain A Father to His Men Dirty Cop Closed Circle The Lost Lenore Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Evil Counterpart No Celebrities Were Harmed Dutch Angle Wounded Gazelle Gambit "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Stealth Pun Armor-Piercing Question Sealed Evil in a Can Bi the Way Worthy Opponent Ax-Crazy Bare Your Midriff Chiaroscuro As Himself All Girls Want Bad Boys Grievous Bottley Harm Hypocrite Creative Closing Credits The Stoner Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Camera Abuse Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Rule of Symbolism Fish out of Water Happily Married I Need a Freaking Drink Pet the Dog The Faceless Four-Temperament Ensemble Meaningful Name Catch-Phrase