Tropescilloscope: Armor-Piercing Question

Question that forces a character to consider their actions. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Male Frontal Nudity Good Is Not Nice Market-Based Title It Will Never Catch On She's Got Legs Fire-Forged Friends Setting Update The Atoner Deus ex Machina Tap on the Head Meaningful Echo Loophole Abuse Eye Scream Drill Sergeant Nasty Soft Glass Downer Ending Loads and Loads of Characters Framing Device Protagonist Title Ms. Fanservice Sole Survivor Silent Movie Romantic Comedy Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Chuck Cunningham Syndrome My Greatest Failure Time Skip Evil Is Hammy Green-Eyed Monster Red Right Hand Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Vacation Films Obstructive Bureaucrat The Dreaded Creepy Child Freudian Excuse For the Evulz Mundane Made Awesome Rule of Symbolism What Happened to the Mouse? 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Is a Crapshoot Nothing Is Scarier Kubrick Stare Shut Up, Hannibal! 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