Tropescilloscope: An Aesop

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Deal with the Devil As Long as It Sounds Foreign Take a Third Option Femme Fatale Unwitting Instigator of Doom The Load Christmas Movies Index Black Dude Dies First The Quiet One Mind Screw Shout-Out Conspicuous CG Off with His Head! Irony Black and Gray Morality Drugs Are Bad Adapted Out Logo Joke Berserk Button Hypocrite Evil Plan Gender Flip Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Shell-Shocked Veteran Psychological Thriller Gilligan Cut Woman in White I Did What I Had to Do Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Race Lift Would Hurt a Child Dramatic Gun Cock Beware the Nice Ones Genre Savvy Spell My Name with an "S" Laughing Mad Offscreen Teleportation Auto Erotica Dutch Angle Sir Swears-a-Lot Rule of Funny Author Avatar Needs Wiki Magic Love Peek-a-Boo Corpse How We Got Here Children Are Innocent The Stoic Time Skip Very Loosely Based on a True Story Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Ambiguous Disorder Storming the Castle Fingore Deus ex Machina Overly Long Gag Bunny-Ears Lawyer Genre Throwback Chewing the Scenery Protagonist Title Daddy's Girl Amoral Attorney Kick the Dog Morality Pet Slap-Slap-Kiss Stuff Blowing Up Action Prologue Bald of Evil Pre-Asskicking One-Liner The '50s Real Life Writes the Plot Badass Grandpa Sacrificial Lion Exactly What It Says on the Tin It Will Never Catch On Jerk Jock The Chick Chekhov's Gunman Hooker with a Heart of Gold Eiffel Tower Effect Meet Cute Did Not Get the Girl The Lancer Big Eater Every Car Is a Pinto The Smurfette Principle Heel Realization No Antagonist All Just a Dream Say My Name Training Montage World of Ham Black Best Friend "Awesome McCool" Name Chekhov's Skill Politically Incorrect Villain Random Events Plot All There in the Manual For Want of a Nail Brainless Beauty Bilingual Bonus Missing Mom Madness Mantra Mexican Standoff Straight Gay Men Are the Expendable Gender Creepy Child Unusually Uninteresting Sight Fanservice Extra Taking the Bullet Cain and Abel Trailers Always Spoil Russian Films Darker and Edgier Major Injury Underreaction You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Blackmail "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue The '80s Vitriolic Best Buds Drives Like Crazy Dumb Blonde Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Military and Warfare Films Damsel in Distress Psycho for Hire Suddenly SHOUTING! Ascended Extra Big Fancy House Villain Ball Mugging the Monster Darkest Hour Scenery Gorn Twist Ending Reasonable Authority Figure The Bad Guy Wins Boom, Headshot! Enemy Mine Translation Convention Coming-of-Age Story Index of Film Westerns Friend to All Children Action Genre Male Gaze Soundtrack Dissonance Pragmatic Villainy Almost Kiss The Big Guy Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Earn Your Happy Ending Break the Haughty Moment Killer Wham Shot Too Dumb to Live Beard of Evil Adaptational Heroism Bolivian Army Ending Throwing Your Sword Always Works The Smart Guy Epic Movie Fish out of Water Destination Defenestration Sports Stories Public Domain Feature Films Noodle Incident The '70s The Cavalry One-Word Title Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Mr. Exposition One-Man Army Be Careful What You Wish For Blood Knight Cool Guns Once More, with Clarity! Riddle for the Ages Lighter and Softer The Dragon Evil Is Hammy N-Word Privileges Foil Only in It for the Money Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Leave the Camera Running Covers Always Lie Token Minority Artistic License – History Outrun the Fireball Double-Meaning Title Shown Their Work Race Against the Clock Manly Tears Tagline Rule of Cool Badass Normal Tempting Fate Scary Black Man Setting Update Based on a True Story Rich Bitch Pay Evil unto Evil Revenge The Ace Jerkass Daylight Horror Action Girl Pyrrhic Victory Last-Name Basis Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Car Fu Market-Based Title Call-Forward Romantic False Lead Neck Snap Room Full of Crazy The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Dirty Coward Superhero From Nobody to Nightmare Ripped from the Headlines Humiliation Conga "Well Done, Son!" Guy Non-Indicative Name The Mafia The Vamp Paper-Thin Disguise Nice Hat Adaptation Name Change Blood from the Mouth One Steve Limit Cool Old Guy Narrator Jerk with a Heart of Gold Does Not Like Shoes Dark Is Not Evil Honor Before Reason Mr. Fanservice The Faceless Spanner in the Works Hair-Trigger Temper True Companions Dissonant Serenity Arch-Enemy Brick Joke Early-Bird Cameo Soft Glass Bad Boss Gorn Slasher Movie Film Noir Index Big Applesauce Closed Circle Rape as Drama Poor Communication Kills Funny Foreigner Ms. Fanservice Alas, Poor Villain Video Credits Reckless Gun Usage Crazy-Prepared Bound and Gagged Fatal Flaw Fourth Date Marriage Man on Fire Film Noir Let's Get Dangerous! Good Is Not Nice Animal Motifs Fatal Family Photo Loads and Loads of Characters Wicked Cultured Spiteful Spit Stylistic Suck Bittersweet Ending Knight Templar Totally Radical French Films Heroic Sacrifice Take That! 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They Really Do Love Each Other The Alcoholic Cat Scare Betty and Veronica Book-Ends Dual Wielding Insult Backfire Death of a Child The Dreaded Here We Go Again! Easily Forgiven Unresolved Sexual Tension Domestic Abuse What Happened to the Mouse? Those Two Bad Guys Crazy Jealous Guy The '60s Anti-Villain Catapult Nightmare All Men Are Perverts Bar Brawl I Have Your Wife Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Abusive Parents It's All About Me Visual Pun O.O.C. Is Serious Business Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Corpsing Redshirt Army Evil Counterpart Adaptation Expansion Nice Guy Cowboy Cop Downer Ending Reality Has No Subtitles Properly Paranoid Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Idiot Ball Black Comedy Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome The Reveal Drowning My Sorrows Loophole Abuse Chiaroscuro More Dakka B-Movie Zombie Stories Henpecked Husband Big Bad Pragmatic Adaptation Novelization Hidden Depths Ass Shove After the End A Minor Kidroduction The Dog Bites Back Bland-Name Product Shirtless Scene Action Survivor The X of Y Gratuitous English Deliberate Values Dissonance Blatant Lies Improbable Aiming Skills Smug Snake Improbable Weapon User Villain with Good Publicity Everyone Has Standards Anachronism Stew Groin Attack My Beloved Smother Babies Ever After The Chessmaster As You Know No Name Given Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Up to Eleven Homage Heterosexual Life-Partners Crucified Hero Shot Title Drop Character Development You Have Failed Me Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Get Out! Match Cut Becoming the Mask BFG Dark Action Girl Cold-Blooded Torture Historical Villain Upgrade Killed Mid-Sentence Animal Title Index As the Good Book Says... Early Installment Weirdness Unreliable Narrator Sadistic Choice Cat Fight Kids Are Cruel Chekhov's Gun No Celebrities Were Harmed Freeze-Frame Bonus Heroes Want Redheads Gold Digger Insistent Terminology Break the Cutie Never Found the Body Butt-Monkey Bowdlerise Immune to Bullets It's Personal Jump Scare Evil Laugh Older Than They Look Names to Run Away from Really Fast Air-Vent Passageway Mood Whiplash Never My Fault Anti-Hero Left the Background Music On Fire-Forged Friends Cool Shades Red Right Hand Italian Films Spared by the Adaptation Crapsack World Badass Boast The Ghost Comically Missing the Point Dark Reprise Badass in a Nice Suit The Mole Back from the Dead Dropped a Bridge on Him Insane Troll Logic Exact Words War Is Hell Sole Survivor Depraved Bisexual Adult Fear Psychopathic Manchild Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Unusual Euphemism Fainting Funny Background Event The Place Eldritch Abomination Alliterative Name Costume Porn Male Frontal Nudity Double Entendre Adaptational Villainy Tap on the Head Failed a Spot Check Dramedy Meaningful Name Captain Obvious Hero Antagonist Manic Pixie Dream Girl Taking You with Me Real Life Spiritual Successor Plot Hole Slashed Throat Heroic BSoD The Un-Reveal Bi the Way Instant Death Bullet Red Herring Defrosting Ice Queen Aside Glance Diabolus ex Machina Our Vampires Are Different Bullying a Dragon Redemption Equals Death Not What It Looks Like I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Important Haircut Getting Crap Past the Radar Would Hit a Girl Japanese Films Big Damn Heroes In the Back Dogged Nice Guy Face–Heel Turn Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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What You Are in the Dark Lampshade Hanging Flashback "The Reason You Suck" Speech Dirty Old Man Bury Your Gays Sealed Evil in a Can You Killed My Father Wrong Genre Savvy The Hero Broken Pedestal Reality Ensues Have a Gay Old Time Maybe Ever After Lock and Load Montage Central Theme Canadian Movies Stock Footage Curb-Stomp Battle Punny Name Antagonist Title Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Fantasy Films Laser-Guided Karma Pretty in Mink Even Evil Has Standards Kick the Son of a Bitch The Bully Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Horror Films Smoking Is Cool Precision F-Strike Extreme Doormat Stealth Pun Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Leaning on the Fourth Wall The Atoner Kill 'em All Mundane Made Awesome He Knows Too Much Oh, Crap! Suspiciously Specific Denial Running Gag Love at First Sight Celebrity Paradox Really Gets Around Foregone Conclusion Dies Wide Open Ambiguously Gay Defiant to the End Woman Scorned Card-Carrying Villain The Cameo Ax-Crazy Anyone Can Die Didn't Think This Through Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Recycled IN SPACE! Advertised Extra The End... Or Is It? Adorkable Took a Level in Jerkass Gory Discretion Shot Obfuscating Stupidity Combat Pragmatist Half the Man He Used to Be Calling the Old Man Out Eagleland Red Shirt Film Series Anguished Declaration of Love Mooks Establishing Character Moment Tranquil Fury Light Is Not Good Off-into-the-Distance Ending Danny Peary Cult Movies List The Power of Love Artistic License – Geography Aluminum Christmas Trees As Himself Interrupted Suicide Disappeared Dad You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Hollywood Darkness I'm a Humanitarian Adaptational Attractiveness Evil vs. Evil Informed Ability Casting Gag Offscreen Moment of Awesome A Date with Rosie Palms Disney Death Broken Bird The Casanova Fake Shemp Expy Dark and Troubled Past Scare Chord Credits Gag Epic Fail Artistic License – Military Shut Up, Hannibal! Determinator Super Strength Does This Remind You of Anything? 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