Tropescilloscope: An Aesop

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Is a Crapshoot Ungrateful Bastard Facial Horror Loads and Loads of Characters Eiffel Tower Effect Shirtless Scene Badass Normal Arranged Marriage Blonde, Brunette, Redhead She Cleans Up Nicely Bar Brawl You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Only One Name Blatant Lies Malevolent Masked Men Berserk Button Rated M for Manly Artistic License – Gun Safety Adaptation Expansion Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Vampire Fiction Stuff Blowing Up From Bad to Worse Big-Bad Ensemble Black Best Friend Spiteful Spit Hell Is That Noise Fanservice Red Eyes, Take Warning Armor-Piercing Question The Starscream Evil Is Hammy Deliberate Values Dissonance Science Fiction Films Dramatic Gun Cock Punny Name Call-Back The Cameo Antagonist Title Revenge Adaptational Heroism Kick the Dog Blood from the Mouth Awesome, but Impractical Unusually Uninteresting Sight Parental Substitute Setting Update Alas, Poor Villain Developing Doomed Characters Demoted to Extra Abusive Parents Aside Glance War Is Hell Drugs Are Bad Dumb Blonde Plucky Comic Relief Whole Plot Reference Agony of the Feet Big Applesauce Captain Ersatz Handicapped Badass Soundtrack Dissonance Camera Abuse Stylistic Suck Big Bad Duumvirate Ripped from the Headlines Camp Gay Take a Third Option Public Domain Feature Films The '60s Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality The Quiet One Disguised in Drag Evil Is Petty Sanity Slippage As You Know Not So Above It All Took a Level in Jerkass No Good Deed Goes Unpunished The Ghost Pyrrhic Victory Film Noir Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Happily Married Dramedy Author Avatar Taking You with Me Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Epic Fail Off with His Head! Accidental Murder Man on Fire And the Adventure Continues 20 Minutes into the Future Grey and Gray Morality Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Hooker with a Heart of Gold Curb-Stomp Battle Death of a Child Hypocritical Humor I Have Your Wife Mr. Fanservice Worthy Opponent I Need a Freaking Drink The '80s Word of God Film Series Improvised Weapon As Himself Adapted Out Dissonant Serenity Once More, with Clarity! The Musical One-Man Army A Father to His Men Hero Antagonist Your Head A-Splode Here We Go Again! 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Kill It with Fire Evil Sounds Deep Artistic License – Law Take That! 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The Smurfette Principle Adaptational Villainy Pretty in Mink The Hero Hero of Another Story Vomit Indiscretion Shot Death by Irony Off-into-the-Distance Ending Totally Radical Kill 'em All This Is Gonna Suck Early-Bird Cameo Bowdlerise Offscreen Moment of Awesome Unreliable Narrator The Alcoholic Ghost Fiction Death by Adaptation The Reveal Big Bad Names to Run Away from Really Fast Dramatic Irony The Ditz Foreshadowing All There in the Manual Maybe Ever After Outrun the Fireball Bound and Gagged "Shaggy Dog" Story Pragmatic Adaptation Asshole Victim The Stoic Blood Knight Together in Death Darkest Hour '80s Hair Well-Intentioned Extremist Back from the Dead He Who Fights Monsters Creator Cameo Moment Killer What the Hell, Hero? Broken Bird N-Word Privileges Protagonist Title My God, What Have I Done? 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Body Horror Villain Song Jerkass Karmic Death Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Police are Useless Framing Device Bond One-Liner The Atoner Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Fun with Acronyms Demonic Possession Based on a True Story Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Never Trust a Trailer German Films Black Comedy Rape Fourth Date Marriage Easily Forgiven Meet Cute Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? The '50s The Lost Lenore Rule of Three Villain Protagonist Green-Eyed Monster Pimped-Out Dress Hate Sink Accidental Misnaming Actually Pretty Funny Manchild Curse Cut Short Jerk Jock Driven to Suicide Romantic False Lead A Date with Rosie Palms I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Martial Arts Movie Exactly What It Says on the Tin As Long as It Sounds Foreign Neck Lift Children Are Innocent A Minor Kidroduction Dark Action Girl Twist Ending Token Minority Spiritual Successor Light Is Not Good Determinator Match Cut The Stinger Belligerent Sexual Tension Ass Shove Very Loosely Based on a True Story Break the Haughty Action Survivor My Greatest Failure An Axe to Grind Tagline The Film of the Book Vacation Films Chase Scene The Great Depression Red Shirt Better to Die than Be Killed Bloodless Carnage Not So Stoic Continuity Nod Trailers Always Spoil Comically Missing the Point Death Glare Fainting Overprotective Dad Country Matters Cool Car Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Crazy-Prepared Fiery Redhead Canadian Movies Five-Man Band Those Two Guys No-Holds-Barred Beatdown The Power of Love Ironic Echo Rule of Symbolism Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Cat Scare Training Montage Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Historical-Domain Character Obfuscating Stupidity Hidden Depths Artistic License – Physics The Un-Reveal Truth in Television Race Lift Faking the Dead Real Life Writes the Plot Historical In-Joke Lighter and Softer Bottomless Magazines Leaning on the Fourth Wall Gorn Adults Are Useless Laser-Guided Karma Character Development Oh, Crap! Properly Paranoid Celebrity Paradox Coming-of-Age Story Honor Before Reason Redshirt Army Refuge in Audacity Mundane Made Awesome Police Brutality Ship Tease Fire-Forged Friends Failed a Spot Check What You Are in the Dark Broken Pedestal Everyone Has Standards Age Lift Affectionate Parody Genre Savvy Punch-Clock Villain All Girls Want Bad Boys Yandere Distracted by the Sexy Spell My Name with an "S" Straight Gay Chekhov's Gunman True Companions Smug Snake Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Or Is It? Gender Flip Nothing Is Scarier Guns Akimbo Brother–Sister Incest Badass Bookworm Catapult Nightmare Bare Your Midriff The Lancer Film Noir Index Bunny-Ears Lawyer Cold-Blooded Torture Informed Ability Plot Hole Make It Look Like an Accident Extremely Short Timespan Video Credits Amoral Attorney Blackmail Romantic Comedy Heroic Sacrifice Creative Closing Credits Half the Man He Used to Be Peek-a-Boo Corpse Dutch Angle Femme Fatale Toplessness from the Back Breaking the Fourth Wall Annoying Younger Sibling Cain and Abel Ambiguous Ending Evil-Detecting Dog Captain Obvious Aluminum Christmas Trees Jump Scare Undying Loyalty Nice Guy All There in the Script BFG Only in It for the Money Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Running Gag Villainous Breakdown Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Bullying a Dragon Dwindling Party NO INDOOR VOICE Crazy Jealous Guy Adaptational Attractiveness Let's Get Dangerous! Big Damn Heroes Nice Hat Sequel Escalation Eyepatch of Power Unusual Euphemism Rule of Funny Unresolved Sexual Tension Dull Surprise Even Evil Has Loved Ones Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy After the End Roaring Rampage of Revenge Chiaroscuro Closed Circle "Awesome McCool" Name Race Against the Clock La Résistance Big Eater Bond Villain Stupidity Chekhov's Skill Auto Erotica Retcon Obviously Evil No-Sell Henpecked Husband Loophole Abuse Show Within a Show The Mole Final Girl Flipping the Bird Motor Mouth Slap-Slap-Kiss Ascended Extra Obstructive Bureaucrat Redemption Equals Death Pretty Little Headshots Not Using the "Z" Word Our Vampires Are Different Calling the Old Man Out Double-Meaning Title Soft Glass Fate Worse than Death Destination Defenestration Overly Long Gag Never My Fault Canon Foreigner Evil Laugh The Dog Bites Back The Oner Random Events Plot Left the Background Music On Dark and Troubled Past Stock Footage Cruel and Unusual Death Retired Badass Cool Old Guy Big Brother Instinct Shout-Out Bolivian Army Ending Pre-Asskicking One-Liner