Tropescilloscope: Artistic License – Geography

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Zombie Stories Rewatch Bonus Ambiguously Gay Not So Different Nice Guy Actor Allusion Broken Pedestal Hoist by His Own Petard Arch-Enemy Up to Eleven Back from the Dead Cool Old Lady Horror Comedy Improbable Aiming Skills Extremely Short Timespan Fake Shemp Romantic Comedy Laughing Mad Mugging the Monster Big Damn Heroes Italian Films Victoria's Secret Compartment For the Evulz Serious Business Annoying Younger Sibling Tagline Tap on the Head Insane Troll Logic Plucky Comic Relief Bait-and-Switch Depraved Bisexual Black Best Friend Eye Scream Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Refuge in Audacity Hooker with a Heart of Gold Karma Houdini Celebrity Paradox Here We Go Again! 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Psychological Thriller Bald of Evil It Will Never Catch On Extreme Doormat Crapsack World Evil-Detecting Dog Intrepid Reporter Corpsing Wrong Genre Savvy Costume Porn Instant Death Bullet Television Movie Index Dramedy Humans Are Bastards Apocalypse How Paper-Thin Disguise Imagine Spot Disney Death Eagleland Failed a Spot Check Amoral Attorney Grievous Bottley Harm Adult Fear Hero Antagonist Mad Scientist Almost Kiss Artistic License – Gun Safety Dark Action Girl Dramatic Irony Alas, Poor Villain Blackmail Toplessness from the Back N-Word Privileges Psycho for Hire An Aesop British Films Mexican Standoff Retirony Fish out of Water Call-Back French Films Animated Credits Opening Not So Stoic Bad "Bad Acting" Funny Background Event Gratuitous English Dogged Nice Guy Bad Boss Never Found the Body Final Girl Foreshadowing Epic Movie As Himself Black and Gray Morality Black Comedy BFG Adaptational Attractiveness She's Got Legs You Have Failed Me The Atoner Obstructive Bureaucrat Dramatic Gun Cock Action Girl Storming the Castle Only Sane Man Once More, with Clarity! Same Language Dub Award-Bait Song Red Shirt Interrupted Suicide All Girls Want Bad Boys Sir Swears-a-Lot Frame-Up Downer Ending Noodle Incident Meet Cute Mr. Fanservice Not So Above It All Unreliable Narrator The Stoic Not Using the "Z" Word Cold-Blooded Torture Hair-Trigger Temper Pretty Little Headshots Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Big Eater Based on a True Story Villain Opening Scene Adaptational Badass Martial Arts Movie Lighter and Softer Exact Words Mundane Made Awesome Made of Explodium Race Lift Parental Substitute Super Strength Villainous Breakdown Drugs Are Bad Disney Villain Death Affably Evil Improbable Weapon User Villain Song Catapult Nightmare Horror Films Logo Joke Determinator Closed Circle The Hero Actually Pretty Funny Face–Heel Turn Amusing Injuries Title Drop Damsel in Distress Manic Pixie Dream Girl Villain Ball Taking You with Me The Casanova Establishing Character Moment Line-of-Sight Name Precision F-Strike One-Word Title Department of Redundancy Department Pay Evil unto Evil Bavarian Fire Drill It's Personal No Celebrities Were Harmed Your Head A-Splode Monumental Damage Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Gorn Take a Third Option An Axe to Grind Dual Wielding May–December Romance Intergenerational Friendship Fun with Acronyms Cowboy Cop Dirty Coward Big-Bad Ensemble Cool Shades Creator Cameo Leaning on the Fourth Wall You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Australian Movies The '90s Would Hit a Girl The Big Guy Romantic False Lead The '80s In Medias Res Villain Protagonist Match Cut Flashback Show Within a Show Death Seeker Film Series The Load Cloudcuckoolander Sadistic Choice Sequel Hook The Smurfette Principle The Brute The Cavalry Historical Hero Upgrade Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Pretty in Mink Casting Gag Early-Bird Cameo Thriller The Dragon Card-Carrying Villain Gone Horribly Right Race Against the Clock Defiant to the End Good Is Not Nice Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Vampire Fiction Gilligan Cut Even Evil Has Standards Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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