Tropescilloscope: An Arm and a Leg

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Last-Name Basis Reality Ensues Laughing Mad Cool Old Guy Extreme Doormat Facial Horror Death Glare Mistaken for Gay Bond Villain Stupidity Artistic License – History Kill It with Fire Suddenly SHOUTING! Insistent Terminology Reckless Gun Usage Video Credits The End... Or Is It? Redshirt Army Obstructive Bureaucrat The Hero Villainous Breakdown Reality Is Unrealistic Victoria's Secret Compartment Freudian Excuse The Voiceless Mighty Whitey Film Series Gender Flip Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Playing Gertrude Male Gaze Spiteful Spit Fingore Gorn Silence Is Golden Adaptation Dye-Job Eiffel Tower Effect Alliterative Name Love Triangle The Ghost Badass Grandpa Your Cheating Heart Insult Backfire Interrupted Suicide Famous Last Words Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Lock and Load Montage Say My Name Actually Pretty Funny Beta Couple Adaptational Badass Informed Ability "Awesome McCool" Name Light Is Not Good No Name Given Kubrick Stare Failed a Spot Check Action Genre Tap on the Head Almost Kiss It's All About Me Early Installment Weirdness Shout-Out Cat Scare Let's Get Dangerous! Mr. Exposition Properly Paranoid Handicapped Badass Would Hit a Girl Get Out! Badass Boast Punny Name No-Holds-Barred Beatdown "The Reason You Suck" Speech Back from the Dead Funny Background Event Cruel and Unusual Death Our Zombies Are Different A Date with Rosie Palms Ghost Fiction Country Matters Bury Your Gays Spell My Name with an "S" Chekhov's Skill Demoted to Extra The Hero Dies Hidden Depths Kick the Son of a Bitch Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Not What It Looks Like Not Even Bothering with the Accent Big-Bad Ensemble Sadistic Choice Hero Antagonist Belligerent Sexual Tension Badass Bookworm Translation Convention My Beloved Smother Artistic License – Physics Catch-Phrase Bad "Bad Acting" May–December Romance I'm a Humanitarian Darkest Hour Adaptational Villainy Crazy Jealous Guy I Did What I Had to Do Idiot Ball Face Death with Dignity Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Ass Shove Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Evil Plan Morality Pet Friend to All Children Villain with Good Publicity Historical Hero Upgrade Body Horror Sassy Black Woman There Is No Kill Like Overkill Anyone Can Die Covers Always Lie Sequel Hook Cool Car As the Good Book Says... The Un-Reveal Rule of Symbolism Car Fu Fatal Flaw Well-Intentioned Extremist Casting Gag World of Ham The Musical Soundtrack Dissonance Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Faux Affably Evil folderlabel Woman Scorned Adaptation Name Change An Arm and a Leg Show Within a Show Sexy Discretion Shot Deus ex Machina Adaptation Distillation Creative Closing Credits Missing Mom Police Brutality Big Brother Instinct Fanservice Extra Took a Level in Jerkass German Films Black Comedy Spiritual Successor Ms. Fanservice Eldritch Abomination Drugs Are Bad Nothing Is Scarier NO INDOOR VOICE The Starscream War Is Hell Fire-Forged Friends Spanner in the Works It Can Think Genre Shift Dark Action Girl My God, What Have I Done? Evil Counterpart Neck Snap Unusually Uninteresting Sight Ripped from the Headlines Jitter Cam Framing Device Line-of-Sight Name Faking the Dead Plucky Comic Relief Retired Badass Coming-of-Age Story Domestic Abuse Eureka Moment Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Parental Abandonment Sole Survivor Horror Comedy Improbable Weapon User Bloodier and Gorier Pretty in Mink Double-Meaning Title Jerk with a Heart of Gold The X of Y Intrepid Reporter One-Man Army In the Back Retcon Enemy Mine Evil Laugh Off with His Head! Twist Ending Big Applesauce Scary Black Man Title Drop Too Dumb to Live The Ace Dramatic Irony Parental Substitute Gold Digger Diabolus ex Machina Driven to Suicide Ambiguous Disorder Everyone Has Standards Improbable Aiming Skills Credits Gag Bald of Evil Foreshadowing Artistic License – Law Book-Ends Crapsack World Fainting Martial Arts Movie Card-Carrying Villain Flipping the Bird Greater-Scope Villain Happily Married Fantastic Racism Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! More Dakka Evil Is Petty Public Domain Feature Films Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other The Casanova Cain and Abel Chiaroscuro Blood from the Mouth Japanese Films Big Fancy House Adaptational Heroism Outrun the Fireball Refuge in Audacity Honor Before Reason Mr. Fanservice Retirony Insane Troll Logic Affectionate Parody Artistic License – Gun Safety Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Auto Erotica Cat Fight For Want of a Nail Batman Gambit Flashback Pet the Dog Jerkass Has a Point Deliberately Monochrome Combat Pragmatist Bloodless Carnage Roaring Rampage of Revenge Leaning on the Fourth Wall The Oner Expy Stalker with a Crush The Dog Bites Back Rule of Cool Take a Third Option The Big Guy Naïve Newcomer Fish out of Water Hoist by His Own Petard All Girls Want Bad Boys An Axe to Grind Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Took a Level in Badass Dumb Blonde Bait-and-Switch Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Aluminum Christmas Trees Needs Wiki Magic Love Italian Films Australian Movies All Men Are Perverts Eye Scream Demonic Possession Market-Based Title Dogged Nice Guy Deconstruction Heroes Want Redheads Fatal Family Photo The Stoic Danny Peary Cult Movies List You Have Failed Me Spared by the Adaptation Actor Allusion Blood Knight The Remake Advertised Extra Break the Cutie Disappeared Dad The Ditz Large Ham Pay Evil unto Evil Darker and Edgier Obfuscating Stupidity Man on Fire Shower Scene Death of a Child The Load Cool Shades All Just a Dream Frame-Up Bottomless Magazines Reasonable Authority Figure Brainless Beauty Celebrity Paradox Expository Hairstyle Change Artistic License – Biology Malevolent Masked Men The Chick Poor Communication Kills You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome She's Got Legs Contrived Coincidence Rule of Funny Leitmotif Red Right Hand Determinator Wrong Genre Savvy The Alcoholic Psychopathic Manchild Daddy's Girl For the Evulz Dying Moment of Awesome Drowning My Sorrows La Résistance Reality Has No Subtitles The Stoner Christmas Movies Index Never Found the Body Historical Villain Upgrade Fiery Redhead Slashed Throat Character Development The Brute Dirty Cop Left the Background Music On He Knows Too Much Documentary Mystery and Detective Films Sinister Minister Dirty Old Man Hero of Another Story The Smurfette Principle Be Careful What You Wish For Shirtless Scene Meaningful Background Event The '80s You Killed My Father It Will Never Catch On Chewing the Scenery Once More, with Clarity! 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Politically Incorrect Villain Better to Die than Be Killed Butt-Monkey Race Against the Clock Amoral Attorney Freeze-Frame Bonus Monumental Damage Posthumous Character Kill 'em All Humiliation Conga Vitriolic Best Buds Cassandra Truth Product Placement Hollywood Darkness Unspoken Plan Guarantee Distracted by the Sexy Determinator aka: The Determinator Wham Shot Dark Is Not Evil Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? One Steve Limit Irony Final Girl The Bad Guy Wins "Well Done, Son!" Guy Important Haircut Broken Pedestal Lampshade Hanging Bond One-Liner Narrator Evil-Detecting Dog Crazy-Prepared Non-Indicative Name Zombie Stories Male Frontal Nudity As You Know The '50s Running Gag My Greatest Failure Death by Sex Older Than They Look Disney Death Defiant to the End Armor-Piercing Question Unresolved Sexual Tension Heroic BSoD Made of Explodium Love at First Sight Manchild Super Strength Russian Films Genre Savvy Big Bad Duumvirate Red Oni, Blue Oni Disney Villain Death Here We Go Again! Homage Motor Mouth Epic Movie Biopic Historical-Domain Character Beware the Nice Ones Conspicuous CG Ungrateful Bastard Jerkass Paper-Thin Disguise Not So Above It All Rich Bitch Chekhov's Gun Composite Character Ascended Extra One-Word Title Alas, Poor Villain The Faceless Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Cowboy Cop Sir Swears-a-Lot Costume Porn Only One Name Death by Adaptation Becoming the Mask Bi the Way Bare Your Midriff Call-Forward Depraved Bisexual Evil Sounds Deep B-Movie Imagine Spot Pretty Little Headshots Eagleland Logo Joke The Quiet One Psychological Thriller Shipper on Deck Parental Neglect Toplessness from the Back Babies Ever After Dual Wielding The Film of the Book Big "NO!" All for Nothing Meaningful Name From Bad to Worse Very Loosely Based on a True Story Gilligan Cut Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Adaptational Attractiveness No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Big Eater Fate Worse than Death From Nobody to Nightmare Bad Boss Those Wacky Nazis Villain Ball Random Events Plot Redemption Equals Death The Place Dramatic Gun Cock Extremely Short Timespan You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! All There in the Script Daylight Horror Rated M for Manly Five-Man Band Time Skip Badass Normal What the Hell, Hero? The Lancer Major Injury Underreaction Action Prologue Not Quite Dead Mythology Gag Heroic Sacrifice Tranquil Fury N-Word Privileges Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Implacable Man Not So Different Blatant Lies Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Deadpan Snarker Ironic Echo Loophole Abuse Bound and Gagged Adorkable Make It Look Like an Accident Mugging the Monster This Is Gonna Suck Awesome, but Impractical Calling the Old Man Out In Medias Res And Starring The Cavalry Creepy Child Wounded Gazelle Gambit Comically Missing the Point Meaningful Echo Dramedy No OSHA Compliance BFG Antagonist Title Index of Film Westerns Bavarian Fire Drill What Happened to the Mouse? Hair-Trigger Temper Punch-Clock Villain Based on a True Story Drill Sergeant Nasty Only Sane Man Vomit Indiscretion Shot Canadian Movies Break the Haughty Due to the Dead Red Herring I Have Your Wife Establishing Character Moment Epic Fail Closed Circle Developing Doomed Characters Berserk Button Those Two Bad Guys Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Unusual Euphemism Leave the Camera Running Guile Hero Destination Defenestration Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Mood Whiplash Dark Reprise Beauty Is Never Tarnished Accidental Murder Hypocrite Henpecked Husband Alpha Bitch Only in It for the Money Madness Mantra Even Evil Has Loved Ones The Alleged Car Disguised in Drag Match Cut Wham Line Cluster F-Bomb Anti-Hero Fanservice Badass in a Nice Suit Brutal Honesty Immune to Bullets And I Must Scream Breaking the Fourth Wall Stepford Smiler Together in Death Corrupt Corporate Executive Our Vampires Are Different The '90s Parental Incest Lighter and Softer Overly Long Gag Obviously Evil Brick Joke Film Noir Dutch Angle Race Lift Chase Scene Undying Loyalty Revenge Shown Their Work Rewatch Bonus Anguished Declaration of Love Black Best Friend The Chessmaster Rape as Drama Manic Pixie Dream Girl Captain Ersatz The Cameo Smug Snake Star-Crossed Lovers Real Life Anachronic Order Anti-Villain Recycled IN SPACE! Adaptation Expansion Small Name, Big Ego Those Two Guys A Father to His Men Cold-Blooded Torture Hypocritical Humor Children Are Innocent Heel–Face Turn Soft Glass Married to the Job The Sociopath As Himself Black Comedy Rape Smoking Is Cool The Mafia Does Not Like Shoes No-Sell An Aesop Gory Discretion Shot The '60s Would Hurt a Child Riddle for the Ages Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Dropped a Bridge on Him Off-into-the-Distance Ending Sealed Evil in a Can Foregone Conclusion He Who Fights Monsters Fake Shemp Good Is Not Nice Self-Deprecation Award-Bait Song Karma Houdini Dwindling Party The Dragon Department of Redundancy Department Peek-a-Boo Corpse Ax-Crazy O.O.C. Is Serious Business Funny Foreigner Only Known by Their Nickname Adapted Out British Films Pragmatic Adaptation Names to Run Away from Really Fast Action Survivor Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Precision F-Strike No Celebrities Were Harmed Intergenerational Friendship Sacrificial Lion Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Whole Plot Reference Word of God Mooks Made of Iron Jerk Jock Skewed Priorities Animated Credits Opening Abhorrent Admirer Amusing Injuries Groin Attack Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Dissonant Serenity Fan Disservice Yandere Silent Movie Deal with the Devil Evil Brit Hooker with a Heart of Gold Crucified Hero Shot Sanity Slippage Stock Footage Bowdlerise Bilingual Bonus Bittersweet Ending Mad Scientist A Minor Kidroduction Nice Guy Training Montage Up to Eleven Pre-Mortem One-Liner Plot Hole Femme Fatale Big Damn Heroes The Lost Lenore Bunny-Ears Lawyer Aside Glance Novelization Decoy Protagonist Damsel in Distress As Long as It Sounds Foreign Evil vs. Evil Improvised Weapon Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Exactly What It Says on the Tin True Companions Slap-Slap-Kiss Grey and Gray Morality Oh, Crap! Setting Update Abusive Parents Pyrrhic Victory Drives Like Crazy Superhero '80s Hair Stylistic Suck Woman in White Never Trust a Trailer Vacation Films Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Foil Guns Akimbo