Tropescilloscope: And Starring

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Face Death with Dignity Due to the Dead Word of God Death of a Child Rule of Symbolism The Hero Dirty Coward Whole Plot Reference Shut Up, Hannibal! Easily Forgiven Almost Kiss Sir Swears-a-Lot Taking the Bullet Disappeared Dad Red Shirt Retirony Villain Ball All for Nothing Yandere Spell My Name with an "S" MacGuffin Jump Scare Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Annoying Younger Sibling Pretty in Mink Here We Go Again! Badass Normal Faux Affably Evil Kids Are Cruel Badass Longcoat Mooks Line-of-Sight Name Extremely Short Timespan Same Language Dub All Girls Want Bad Boys Offscreen Moment of Awesome Bloodier and Gorier Never Found the Body Hero Antagonist 20 Minutes into the Future Love Triangle Names to Run Away from Really Fast Adaptational Villainy Evil Plan Evil vs. Evil Historical-Domain Character Punny Name Dutch Angle Romantic Comedy Character Development Becoming the Mask For the Evulz Beard of Evil Pretty Little Headshots Dissonant Serenity The Brute Credits Gag Affectionate Parody Random Events Plot Villain with Good Publicity Department of Redundancy Department Re-Cut Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Attempted Rape Improvised Weapon Smug Snake Important Haircut Cowboy Cop Unusual Euphemism Deus ex Machina Politically Incorrect Villain Leaning on the Fourth Wall Daddy's Girl As Himself An Arm and a Leg Not So Above It All Artistic License – Geography Greater-Scope Villain Evil-Detecting Dog Accidental Murder Advertised Extra Drowning My Sorrows Parental Substitute Gorn The Lancer Russian Films Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience True Companions The Cavalry Black Comedy Rape Off with His Head! 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Failed a Spot Check Death by Adaptation One-Man Army The Power of Love Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Martial Arts Movie Insult Backfire Every Car Is a Pinto Distracted by the Sexy Coming-of-Age Story Drives Like Crazy Chase Scene Nice Guy Bond Villain Stupidity The Sociopath Curb-Stomp Battle Refuge in Audacity An Aesop Alliterative Name Henpecked Husband Heroic BSoD Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Evil Brit Undying Loyalty For Want of a Nail Index of Film Westerns Totally Radical Meaningful Name Brother–Sister Incest Actor Allusion Depraved Bisexual Jerk Jock Insane Troll Logic Men Are the Expendable Gender Horror Comedy Vomit Indiscretion Shot Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Aside Glance Vampire Fiction Naked People Are Funny Product Placement I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Visual Pun Soundtrack Dissonance Brainless Beauty Older Than They Look Unreliable Narrator "The Reason You Suck" Speech British Films Would Hurt a Child Green-Eyed Monster Up to Eleven The Ghost '80s Hair No OSHA Compliance Funny Background Event Arranged Marriage In Medias Res Spared by the Adaptation You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Eyepatch of Power Fanservice Extra Paper-Thin Disguise Danny Peary Cult Movies List Artistic License – History Corpsing Alpha Bitch Groin Attack Sci-Fi Horror Chewing the Scenery Unresolved Sexual Tension Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Darkest Hour Took a Level in Jerkass Mama Bear Badass Bookworm Straight Gay Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Pimped-Out Dress Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Take a Third Option Pre-Mortem One-Liner Be Careful What You Wish For The Smart Guy Bi the Way French Films Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas The Musical Big Applesauce Pyrrhic Victory Truth in Television Hypocritical Humor Take That! Four-Temperament Ensemble Shoot the Shaggy Dog Book-Ends As the Good Book Says... 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The Big Guy You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Dumb Blonde Meaningful Background Event Biopic Deal with the Devil Overly Long Gag Cain and Abel Deconstruction Betty and Veronica Mercy Kill Hope Spot The Chessmaster Deliberate Values Dissonance Adaptational Heroism The Smurfette Principle Malevolent Masked Men Left the Background Music On Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Time Skip Adapted Out Spiritual Successor Stuff Blowing Up Combat Pragmatist Scary Black Man The Dog Bites Back The Stinger Affably Evil Breaking the Fourth Wall Missing Mom Artistic License – Law Evil Laugh Mr. Fanservice Ms. Fanservice Actually Pretty Funny Eureka Moment Playing Gertrude Adaptational Badass Psychopathic Manchild Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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Outrun the Fireball Loophole Abuse Sanity Slippage Crucified Hero Shot War Is Hell And the Adventure Continues Poor Communication Kills Retired Badass Bullying a Dragon Translation Convention Big Eater Sports Stories Deliberately Monochrome The Alleged Car Damsel in Distress Redemption Equals Death "Shaggy Dog" Story Worthy Opponent Auto Erotica More Dakka Foreshadowing Babies Ever After Blood from the Mouth From Bad to Worse Never Trust a Trailer Apocalypse How Not Even Bothering with the Accent Improbable Weapon User It Can Think Genre Shift Setting Update Stealth Pun Bottomless Magazines Decoy Protagonist She Cleans Up Nicely Abhorrent Admirer Jitter Cam Ironic Echo Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Break the Cutie Very Loosely Based on a True Story Asshole Victim Humans Are Bastards No Celebrities Were Harmed Bare Your Midriff Sassy Black Woman Mind Screw Children Are Innocent Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday From Nobody to Nightmare Race Against the Clock Heroes Want Redheads Rule of Cool Romantic False Lead Friend to All Children Peek-a-Boo Corpse Thriller Cool Old Lady Did Not Get the Girl The Ditz Corrupt Corporate Executive Slasher Movie Arch-Enemy Nice Hat Badass Grandpa Genre Throwback Driven to Suicide Good Is Not Nice Meaningful Echo Scare Chord Action Girl Toplessness from the Back Black Dude Dies First The X of Y Only a Flesh Wound Storming the Castle Epic Movie Curse Cut Short Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Country Matters Science Fiction Films Maybe Ever After Parental Neglect Black and Gray Morality Diabolus ex Machina The Bad Guy Wins Mistaken for Gay Adaptation Distillation Ship Tease Only Sane Man Narrator Logo Joke Together in Death Creepy Child Fire-Forged Friends Bland-Name Product Never My Fault Didn't Think This Through Psycho for Hire Twist Ending Eagleland Properly Paranoid Mystery and Detective Films Abusive Parents Homage Deadpan Snarker Throwing Your Sword Always Works I Need a Freaking Drink Sealed Evil in a Can Grievous Bottley Harm Male Frontal Nudity Heel Realization Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Market-Based Title Author Appeal Parental Incest Reasonable Authority Figure Smoking Is Cool Japanese Films Silence Is Golden Darker and Edgier Australian Movies The '80s Guns Akimbo Protagonist Title Psychological Thriller Animal Motifs Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Eiffel Tower Effect Rewatch Bonus Foil Leave the Camera Running A Father to His Men Too Dumb to Live Ambiguous Ending Ax-Crazy All There in the Script Obfuscating Stupidity Heel–Face Turn Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Redshirt Army The Vamp Dwindling Party Award-Bait Song All Just a Dream Fake Shemp Hell Is That Noise Blatant Lies Broken Aesop Even Evil Has Loved Ones Awesome, but Impractical It Will Never Catch On Cassandra Truth Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Eye Scream Arc Words NO INDOOR VOICE Slashed Throat Cool Guns Hoist by His Own Petard I'm a Humanitarian What You Are in the Dark Stock Footage The Place Soft Glass Kill 'em All Say My Name Plot Hole Novelization How We Got Here Double Entendre Man on Fire Not So Stoic Last-Name Basis Knife Nut Tap on the Head Composite Character Hero of Another Story Beware the Nice Ones Unspoken Plan Guarantee The Mole Neck Snap Fourth Date Marriage Hollywood Darkness A God Am I Lampshade Hanging Card-Carrying Villain Christmas Movies Index All Men Are Perverts Manic Pixie Dream Girl BFG Break the Haughty Stylistic Suck O.O.C. Is Serious Business Music Stories Gender Flip Covers Always Lie Disney Villain Death Chekhov's Skill Call-Forward Those Two Bad Guys Victoria's Secret Compartment Continuity Nod You Have Failed Me Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Beauty Is Never Tarnished Fun with Acronyms Training Montage Lighter and Softer After the End folderlabel Freudian Excuse Brick Joke Bad "Bad Acting" Based on a True Story Vacation Films Rich Bitch Parental Abandonment Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Berserk Button Adorkable Artistic License – Gun Safety Blood Knight Hidden Depths Match Cut Roaring Rampage of Revenge Handicapped Badass Determinator Half the Man He Used to Be Camera Abuse You Killed My Father Drugs Are Bad Unwitting Instigator of Doom Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Documentary I Have Your Wife Crazy-Prepared Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Or Is It? Obviously Evil Title Drop Mighty Whitey Chiaroscuro Fish out of Water Ungrateful Bastard The Faceless Intergenerational Friendship Put on a Bus Famous Last Words Evil Is Hammy Accidental Misnaming Married to the Job Karmic Death Bloodless Carnage Even Evil Has Standards Defiant to the End Animated Credits Opening Bowdlerise Historical Hero Upgrade Leitmotif Cool Car Loads and Loads of Characters Age Lift Taking You with Me Developing Doomed Characters Despair Event Horizon Black Best Friend Fantasy Films The '60s Non-Indicative Name Ambiguous Disorder Jerkass Has a Point Mundane Made Awesome Pay Evil unto Evil No Antagonist Precision F-Strike Jerkass Extreme Doormat The Alcoholic Evil Counterpart Frame-Up Monumental Damage Insistent Terminology This Is Gonna Suck Fainting Dirty Cop Irony Anyone Can Die Defrosting Ice Queen Stepford Smiler Gory Discretion Shot In the Back Ragtag Bunch of Misfits The Chick Boom, Headshot! 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The Voiceless Big Brother Instinct Alas, Poor Villain Artistic License – Physics Gratuitous English Horror Films Foregone Conclusion Bunny-Ears Lawyer Villainous Breakdown The '70s Death by Sex Guile Hero The Un-Reveal Dramedy Wrong Genre Savvy Bittersweet Ending Freeze-Frame Bonus Adaptational Attractiveness Military and Warfare Films Does Not Like Shoes Pragmatic Adaptation Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Femme Fatale Film Noir Index Mad Scientist Vomit Discretion Shot Slap-Slap-Kiss Well-Intentioned Extremist Large Ham Framing Device Suspiciously Similar Substitute Historical Villain Upgrade No Name Given As You Know Implacable Man Back from the Dead Rasputinian Death Dirty Old Man Dressing as the Enemy Badass in a Nice Suit As Long as It Sounds Foreign Improbable Aiming Skills World of Ham Sacrificial Lion Zombie Stories Amusing Injuries Film Noir It's Personal Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Our Zombies Are Different Drill Sergeant Nasty Agony of the Feet Kill It with Fire Made of Explodium Male Gaze The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Rated M for Manly Sole Survivor The Cameo Kick the Dog Wham Shot Downer Ending Establishing Character Moment timeperiod Catch-Phrase