Tropescilloscope: An Aesop

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