Tropescilloscope: Anyone Can Die

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Naked People Are Funny Determinator aka: The Determinator Peek-a-Boo Corpse Light Is Not Good Television Movie Index Bait-and-Switch Central Theme Italian Films Manic Pixie Dream Girl Not Quite Dead Kill 'em All Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Villain Song Dying Moment of Awesome Creepy Child Drives Like Crazy The Casanova Sir Swears-a-Lot Jerkass Has a Point Due to the Dead No OSHA Compliance Defiant to the End Even Evil Has Standards Immune to Bullets Unreliable Narrator Hypocritical Humor Broken Bird Gender Flip An Arm and a Leg Intrepid Reporter The Hero Manipulative Bastard Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Better to Die than Be Killed Undying Loyalty Chewing the Scenery Fatal Family Photo Casting Gag Sexy Discretion Shot B-Movie The '50s "The Reason You Suck" Speech Captain Ersatz Black Dude Dies First The Cameo All for Nothing Adaptation Dye-Job The Big Guy Brutal Honesty Your Cheating Heart For the Evulz The Stoner Parental Substitute The Quiet One Neck Snap Christmas Movies Index Works Set in World War II Made of Iron War Is Hell Line-of-Sight Name Fish out of Water Scenery Porn Deconstruction I Have Your Wife Jerkass Epic Movie Jerk with a Heart of Gold Knight Templar Only a Flesh Wound Eiffel Tower Effect Fanservice Decoy Protagonist Would Hit a Girl Dutch Angle Empathic Environment Bare Your Midriff Meaningful Echo Silence Is Golden Papa Wolf Show Within a Show Our Zombies Are Different Evil Counterpart Knife Nut Insistent Terminology Auto Erotica Dark Is Not Evil Berserk Button Token Minority The Great Depression Destination Defenestration Married to the Job Sanity Slippage It's All About Me Cain and Abel Belligerent Sexual Tension Laughing Mad Say My Name The Musical Villain Opening Scene Evil vs. Evil Dramedy Adaptational Heroism Obfuscating Stupidity Dwindling Party Rated M for Manly Small Name, Big Ego Pay Evil unto Evil Groin Attack Psychological Thriller My Beloved Smother Russian Films Reality Is Unrealistic Retired Badass Stuff Blowing Up Extremely Short Timespan Getting Crap Past the Radar Armor-Piercing Question Rewatch Bonus Genre Shift Amoral Attorney Historical Hero Upgrade Fatal Flaw No-Sell Mad Scientist Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Death by Sex Sadistic Choice Karma Houdini Blackmail Action Prologue Early Installment Weirdness Crapsack World Extreme Doormat The Dreaded I Just Shot Marvin in the Face British Films Author Appeal Visual Pun All Just a Dream Serial Killer Real Life Writes the Plot Tagline One Steve Limit Curse Cut Short Parental Neglect Alas, Poor Villain And I Must Scream Fate Worse than Death What You Are in the Dark Failed a Spot Check Exactly What It Says on the Tin Boom, Headshot! Ambiguously Gay Red Herring Jitter Cam Psycho for Hire Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Air-Vent Passageway Fake Shemp Hoist by His Own Petard Evil Is Hammy Disney Death Spared by the Adaptation One-Word Title Manly Tears Humiliation Conga Screw This, I'm Outta Here! More Dakka Badass Grandpa Bury Your Gays Would Hurt a Child Took a Level in Jerkass Conspicuous CG Body Horror This Is Gonna Suck Damsel in Distress The Un-Reveal True Companions Unspoken Plan Guarantee O.O.C. Is Serious Business Truth in Television Ripped from the Headlines The Alleged Car Animal Motifs Obstructive Bureaucrat Manchild Faking the Dead Pimped-Out Dress Tap on the Head Room Full of Crazy Pretty in Mink Maybe Ever After Pyrrhic Victory Calling the Old Man Out Hidden Depths Eye Scream Narrator Five-Man Band Corpsing Red Shirt A Minor Kidroduction Bloodier and Gorier The Chick Artistic License – Military Martial Arts Movie Deliberately Monochrome Children Are Innocent Taking You with Me Jerk Jock Disguised in Drag Faux Affably Evil Very Loosely Based on a True Story Dull Surprise Beta Couple Mood Whiplash Did Not Get the Girl Scenery Gorn A.I. Is a Crapshoot Bad Boss Annoying Younger Sibling Arranged Marriage Pretty Little Headshots Stalker with a Crush Deliberate Values Dissonance Be Careful What You Wish For Stepford Smiler Villainous Breakdown Real Life Malevolent Masked Men Parental Abandonment Aww, Look! 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Dies Wide Open Country Matters Animated Credits Opening Zombie Stories Neck Lift Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Rape as Drama Department of Redundancy Department Determinator Vomit Indiscretion Shot Anachronic Order Artistic License – History Disproportionate Retribution Does Not Like Shoes Film Series Danny Peary Cult Movies List In Medias Res Costume Porn In the Back The Place Posthumous Character Poor Communication Kills Scare Chord Foregone Conclusion Nice Guy Twist Ending As You Know Authority Equals Asskicking Expository Hairstyle Change Chase Scene Camera Abuse Affectionate Parody Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Smoking Is Cool Dirty Cop Wounded Gazelle Gambit Public Domain Feature Films The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Book-Ends Mooks Parental Incest Bowdlerise Abusive Parents Wrong Genre Savvy Canon Foreigner Product Placement La Résistance Shoot the Shaggy Dog Credits Gag Really Gets Around Revenge Ax-Crazy Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Wretched Hive All Girls Want Bad Boys Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! The Cavalry Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Brainless Beauty Action Genre Double Entendre Wicked Cultured Dressing as the Enemy May–December Romance Trailers Always Spoil Badass Boast Funny Foreigner Happily Married Take a Third Option Retirony Bitch in Sheep's Clothing You Killed My Father Film Noir Heterosexual Life-Partners Flipping the Bird Catch-Phrase Suspiciously Similar Substitute Here We Go Again! 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Rasputinian Death Bloodless Carnage Diabolus ex Machina Age Lift Half the Man He Used to Be Lampshade Hanging Sole Survivor Loads and Loads of Characters Good Is Not Nice Face Death with Dignity Not What It Looks Like Villain Protagonist Shirtless Scene Blatant Lies Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Gilligan Cut Arch-Enemy Only One Name Killed Mid-Sentence Bottomless Magazines Karmic Death Punny Name A God Am I Cool Guns Mugging the Monster The Starscream Heel Realization Laser-Guided Karma Mighty Whitey Shown Their Work Big Eater "Awesome McCool" Name Wham Shot Left the Background Music On Eagleland