Tropescilloscope: An Arm and a Leg

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