Tropescilloscope: As Long as It Sounds Foreign

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For Want of a Nail Nice Hat Casting Gag Toplessness from the Back Handicapped Badass Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Took a Level in Badass All Girls Want Bad Boys The Remake Pimped-Out Dress Poor Communication Kills Dissonant Serenity Works Set in World War II The Voiceless The Atoner Bittersweet Ending Plucky Comic Relief Captain Ersatz Country Matters Your Head A-Splode My Greatest Failure No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Animal Title Index Love Triangle Funny Background Event Cowboy Cop Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Even Evil Has Loved Ones The Hero Dies In Name Only Humiliation Conga Villain Protagonist True Companions Too Dumb to Live Lock and Load Montage Only Known by Their Nickname Damsel in Distress Took a Level in Jerkass Insult Backfire Bond One-Liner Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Cool Guns Evil Cannot Comprehend Good There Is No Kill Like Overkill Once More, with Clarity! Tagline No Good Deed Goes Unpunished A.I. Is a Crapshoot Those Wacky Nazis Red Oni, Blue Oni Non-Indicative Name Faking the Dead Historical Hero Upgrade Wounded Gazelle Gambit Catch-Phrase Five-Man Band Get Out! Happily Married Narrator Throwing Your Sword Always Works Berserk Button Becoming the Mask A God Am I Screw This, I'm Outta Here! I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Vacation Films A Date with Rosie Palms Reality Is Unrealistic Age Lift All There in the Manual From Nobody to Nightmare Adaptational Badass Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Stylistic Suck It's Personal He Knows Too Much Overprotective Dad Obviously Evil Bury Your Gays Needs Wiki Magic Love Break the Haughty Visual Pun Badass Grandpa Funny Foreigner Say My Name BFG The Hero Punny Name Crazy Jealous Guy Bavarian Fire Drill Reality Ensues Artistic License – Military Psycho for Hire Jerk with a Heart of Gold Green-Eyed Monster Award-Bait Song Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Be Careful What You Wish For The Cavalry Mythology Gag Horror Films Not Using the "Z" Word Getting Crap Past the Radar "The Reason You Suck" Speech Rape as Drama Made of Iron Wham Shot Gone Horribly Right The '60s Flashback I'm a Humanitarian Adaptational Attractiveness Running Gag Manipulative Bastard Mr. Exposition Knight Templar Hero Antagonist Ass Shove Amusing Injuries Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Cool Old Lady Romantic False Lead Refuge in Audacity Canon Foreigner Disproportionate Retribution Adaptational Heroism Overly Long Gag Demonic Possession Karmic Death Anyone Can Die Obstructive Bureaucrat For the Evulz The Casanova Villain Opening Scene Idiot Ball I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Spell My Name with an "S" No-Sell Police Brutality The Cameo Cool Car Villain with Good Publicity Red Eyes, Take Warning Drives Like Crazy Adapted Out Determinator aka: The Determinator Not What It Looks Like Fantastic Racism Ms. Fanservice Betty and Veronica Motor Mouth Straight Gay An Aesop Mooks Gilligan Cut Bolivian Army Ending Left the Background Music On Hoist by His Own Petard Famous Last Words One Steve Limit Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! The Brute Jerkass Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Anachronic Order My God, What Have I Done? Evil-Detecting Dog Pyrrhic Victory Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Vomit Discretion Shot Expy Dramatic Gun Cock The Musical Sacrificial Lion Maybe Ever After Scare Chord Artistic License – Biology Dirty Coward Product Placement Plot Hole Heroic Sacrifice Martial Arts Movie Heterosexual Life-Partners Bland-Name Product Shown Their Work Empathic Environment Eyepatch of Power Sassy Black Woman Only a Flesh Wound Red Herring My Beloved Smother Femme Fatale Never Trust a Trailer Fake Shemp Anti-Hero Credits Gag Anguished Declaration of Love Daddy's Girl Ascended Extra Fainting Science Fiction Films Tempting Fate Large Ham Ironic Echo Hero of Another Story The Reveal NO INDOOR VOICE Based on a True Story Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Screw the Money, I Have Rules! The Quiet One Dirty Cop Romantic Comedy Playing Gertrude Pretty Little Headshots Dwindling Party Didn't Think This Through Batman Gambit Facial Horror Eureka Moment Foregone Conclusion Would Hit a Girl Biopic Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Take a Third Option Really Gets Around Jerkass Has a Point Insistent Terminology Extreme Doormat Curse Cut Short Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Disguised in Drag The Place The Big Guy Antagonist Title Film Series Adorkable Retirony Older Than They Look Major Injury Underreaction Eagleland Broken Aesop Vitriolic Best Buds Token Minority All Men Are Perverts Men Are the Expendable Gender Dropped a Bridge on Him Hate Sink Drowning My Sorrows Death by Sex Heroes Want Redheads Ambiguously Gay Guile Hero Everyone Has Standards From Bad to Worse Scenery Porn Death by Adaptation Black Best Friend Homage Ax-Crazy Composite Character Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Sexy Discretion Shot Coming-of-Age Story Call-Back Dark Reprise Improbable Weapon User Race Against the Clock Ominous Latin Chanting Author Avatar Evil Laugh Woman Scorned Parental Incest Brutal Honesty Alliterative Name Bar Brawl Animal Motifs Rich Bitch Mama Bear Redemption Equals Death Dies Wide Open Bring My Brown Pants Freudian Excuse Almost Kiss Spiteful Spit Rated M for Manly Honor Before Reason Vomit Indiscretion Shot Beta Couple Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Precision F-Strike Vampire Fiction Early Installment Weirdness Fun with Acronyms Leitmotif The Ghost Bound and Gagged Soft Glass A Minor Kidroduction Taking the Bullet Card-Carrying Villain Foil '80s Hair Exactly What It Says on the Tin Sequel Hook Death of a Child Death Glare Re-Cut Blackmail Aside Glance In Medias Res Genre Savvy Super Strength Fourth Date Marriage Face–Heel Turn Missing Mom German Films Arch-Enemy Bunny-Ears Lawyer World of Ham Music Stories Logo Joke Fish out of Water Laser-Guided Karma Action Girl Loads and Loads of Characters Curb-Stomp Battle Suspiciously Similar Substitute Domestic Abuse Parental Neglect Distracted by the Sexy Tap on the Head Arc Words Chekhov's Gunman Call-Forward Shirtless Scene Mystery and Detective Films Boom, Headshot! Important Haircut One-Man Army Public Domain Feature Films Covers Always Lie Foreshadowing Dying Moment of Awesome Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Ripped from the Headlines Laughing Mad Those Two Bad Guys Translation Convention Fanservice Book-Ends 20 Minutes into the Future The '70s Japanese Films The Stoner Bullying a Dragon Reckless Gun Usage The Bully Eiffel Tower Effect "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Nice Guy Retcon Genre Shift Mood Whiplash May–December Romance Fatal Flaw Disney Villain Death Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Setting Update Corpsing Self-Deprecation Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Double-Meaning Title Brother–Sister Incest Market-Based Title Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Celebrity Paradox Recycled IN SPACE! Mugging the Monster Soundtrack Dissonance You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Action Genre Break the Cutie Male Gaze Conspicuous CG Serious Business Affably Evil Made of Explodium Sports Stories Jump Scare Spanner in the Works Real Life Bait-and-Switch Cat Fight Last-Name Basis Naked People Are Funny Adult Fear Black and Gray Morality Badass Bookworm Cool Old Guy Danny Peary Cult Movies List The Oner The Smurfette Principle Deus ex Machina Mexican Standoff Developing Doomed Characters Parental Abandonment Greater-Scope Villain Off-into-the-Distance Ending The Stinger The Mafia Only in It for the Money Bi the Way Cluster F-Bomb Dogged Nice Guy After the End This Is Gonna Suck Babies Ever After Authority Equals Asskicking Dramedy Exact Words Stealth Hi/Bye Worthy Opponent Crucified Hero Shot Epic Fail Dual Wielding Hair-Trigger Temper Undying Loyalty Bilingual Bonus Small Name, Big Ego Implacable Man Cat Scare Karma Houdini Man on Fire "Awesome McCool" Name Extremely Short Timespan No Celebrities Were Harmed Take That! Destination Defenestration Cloudcuckoolander Mr. Fanservice Madness Mantra The Dragon Evil Plan Knife Nut Big Bad I Have Your Wife Paper-Thin Disguise Even Evil Has Standards Artistic License – Gun Safety Time Skip Armor-Piercing Question Shout-Out Up to Eleven Aluminum Christmas Trees She's Got Legs Lighter and Softer Villainous Breakdown Not Even Bothering with the Accent Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Stock Footage Stalker with a Crush Canadian Movies A Father to His Men Bond Villain Stupidity Alas, Poor Villain The Starscream Car Fu Adaptation Name Change Not Quite Dead Chekhov's Gun It Will Never Catch On Here We Go Again! Beauty Is Never Tarnished Flipping the Bird Beard of Evil Sealed Evil in a Can Belligerent Sexual Tension War Is Hell What Happened to the Mouse? Eldritch Abomination Artistic License – Physics Expository Hairstyle Change Fanservice Extra She Cleans Up Nicely Sci-Fi Horror Line-of-Sight Name Friend to All Children Spared by the Adaptation Would Hurt a Child Index of Film Westerns Henpecked Husband You Have Failed Me Guns Akimbo Dumb Blonde Punch-Clock Villain And I Must Scream Never Found the Body What You Are in the Dark Character Development Did Not Get the Girl Camp Gay Improvised Weapon Determinator Real Life Writes the Plot The Lost Lenore Decoy Protagonist Disney Death Double Entendre In the Back Parental Substitute Thriller Match Cut Those Two Guys Downer Ending Gory Discretion Shot Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? The Sociopath Big "NO!" Rasputinian Death Intrepid Reporter "Well Done, Son!" Guy Humans Are Bastards Chewing the Scenery Peek-a-Boo Corpse Arranged Marriage Film Noir Index No Ending Earn Your Happy Ending Darker and Edgier Four-Temperament Ensemble The '90s Captain Obvious Sinister Minister Anachronism Stew Catapult Nightmare Daylight Horror Evil vs. Evil Random Events Plot Big Bad Duumvirate Defrosting Ice Queen Monumental Damage The Great Depression Badass in a Nice Suit Better to Die than Be Killed Breaking the Fourth Wall Only Sane Man Badass Normal Face Death with Dignity The Film of the Book Word of God Air-Vent Passageway Together in Death I Need a Freaking Drink Cruel and Unusual Death Fan Disservice Our Vampires Are Different Agony of the Feet Fingore Wretched Hive Sadistic Choice Establishing Character Moment Skewed Priorities Ship Tease Blood Knight Big Eater How We Got Here Big-Bad Ensemble Bad "Bad Acting" Documentary Early-Bird Cameo N-Word Privileges Not So Stoic Bald of Evil Hell Is That Noise Asshole Victim Adaptation Expansion The Load Smug Snake Badass Longcoat The '50s Red Shirt Easily Forgiven Does This Remind You of Anything? Red Right Hand Shell-Shocked Veteran folderlabel Pay Evil unto Evil The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Enemy Mine Bad Boss Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Title Drop Anti-Villain Outrun the Fireball Bowdlerise Reality Has No Subtitles "Shaggy Dog" Story Combat Pragmatist Evil Brit Suddenly SHOUTING! As Himself I Did What I Had to Do O.O.C. Is Serious Business Superhero Revenge The Chessmaster Gold Digger Villain Ball Action Prologue Storming the Castle Roaring Rampage of Revenge Creator Cameo Manly Tears Alpha Bitch Television Movie Index Groin Attack Unreliable Narrator Does Not Like Shoes Christmas Movies Index It Can Think Pragmatic Adaptation Only One Name Race Lift Adaptation Distillation Informed Ability Rousing Speech Bottomless Magazines Slasher Smile Demoted to Extra Sole Survivor Reasonable Authority Figure The Vamp Scenery Gorn Deadpan Snarker Black Comedy Wham Line And Starring Drill Sergeant Nasty Fate Worse than Death Unresolved Sexual Tension Sequel Escalation Rule of Cool Serial Killer Kick the Dog Continuity Nod Camera Abuse Totally Radical Creepy Child timeperiod The Lancer Creative Closing Credits Historical In-Joke Training Montage Chekhov's Skill Gratuitous English Dark Is Not Evil Epic Movie Obfuscating Stupidity Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Kick the Son of a Bitch Sir Swears-a-Lot Instant Death Bullet Ambiguous Disorder French Films Naïve Newcomer Pre-Mortem One-Liner Fiery Redhead The Ace Deliberately Monochrome Awesome, but Impractical Ghost Fiction Heel Realization Butt-Monkey Hollywood Darkness Driven to Suicide Mercy Kill Death by Irony Blatant Lies Very Loosely Based on a True Story Meet Cute Neck Snap Auto Erotica Slashed Throat Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Shower Scene Abhorrent Admirer An Arm and a Leg Manic Pixie Dream Girl Annoying Younger Sibling Big Fancy House Show Within a Show Yandere Hollywood Law Final Girl The Power of Love Big Applesauce Silent Movie Moment Killer You Killed My Father Stepford Smiler Due to the Dead Smoking Is Cool Grey and Gray Morality Diabolus ex Machina Taking You with Me Bloodier and Gorier Meaningful Name Brick Joke What the Hell, Hero? Shut Up, Hannibal! No Name Given Attempted Rape The Smart Guy Broken Bird Gainax Ending Black Comedy Rape Action Survivor Jerk Jock Imagine Spot Evil Sounds Deep Shipper on Deck Politically Incorrect Villain Make It Look Like an Accident Room Full of Crazy Affectionate Parody Bloodless Carnage Loophole Abuse Psychological Thriller Married to the Job Ambiguous Ending Artistic License – Geography Scary Black Man Evil Counterpart Film Noir Spiritual Successor Brainless Beauty Slasher Movie Hong Kong Films Black Dude Dies First Chase Scene Eye Scream Disappeared Dad Sanity Slippage Artistic License – History Cool Shades Big Brother Instinct Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Adaptation Dye-Job Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Never My Fault Irony The Faceless Crazy-Prepared Meaningful Echo Twist Ending Historical-Domain Character Contrived Coincidence Have a Gay Old Time Slap-Slap-Kiss Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Defiant to the End Hidden Depths Interrupted Suicide Posthumous Character Tranquil Fury Hope Spot Department of Redundancy Department Your Cheating Heart Grievous Bottley Harm Cassandra Truth Death Seeker Kids Are Cruel Pretty in Mink Our Zombies Are Different Ungrateful Bastard Wrong Genre Savvy Offscreen Teleportation Crapsack World Silence Is Golden Drugs Are Bad Freeze-Frame Bonus Killed Mid-Sentence Dark and Troubled Past You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Noodle Incident Immune to Bullets As You Know Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Victoria's Secret Compartment Gender Flip Unspoken Plan Guarantee The Ditz Bloody Hilarious The Un-Reveal Genre Throwback Unusually Uninteresting Sight Framing Device Actually Pretty Funny Abusive Parents Mighty Whitey Zombie Stories Darkest Hour Redshirt Army Adaptational Villainy Dull Surprise Cain and Abel B-Movie Despair Event Horizon Comically Missing the Point Mind Screw Leaning on the Fourth Wall Adults Are Useless Kubrick Stare Same Language Dub Beware the Nice Ones Broken Pedestal Author Appeal Star-Crossed Lovers Morality Pet Dramatic Irony Love at First Sight Leave the Camera Running Hypocrite Advertised Extra All There in the Script All for Nothing Horror Comedy And the Adventure Continues Faux Affably Evil As the Good Book Says... Australian Movies Artistic License – Law Accidental Misnaming All Just a Dream Cold-Blooded Torture The Alcoholic Badass Boast MacGuffin Video Credits Nothing Is Scarier Unwitting Instigator of Doom The Dog Bites Back Dutch Angle Military and Warfare Films Dressing as the Enemy Big Damn Heroes Let's Get Dangerous! Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Italian Films Rewatch Bonus Woman in White An Axe to Grind The '80s Chiaroscuro Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Psychopathic Manchild Mistaken for Gay Suspiciously Specific Denial Mad Scientist Actor Allusion Rule of Symbolism Evil Is Petty Unusual Euphemism Every Car Is a Pinto Half the Man He Used to Be Apocalypse How La Résistance Bare Your Midriff Fat Bastard Papa Wolf Not So Different Jitter Cam Back from the Dead Central Theme Intergenerational Friendship The End... Or Is It? The Dreaded Animated Credits Opening Stealth Pun Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Pragmatic Villainy Fantasy Films Put on a Bus Evil Is Hammy Gorn Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Accidental Murder Police are Useless Kill 'em All Deliberate Values Dissonance Meaningful Background Event Offscreen Moment of Awesome Novelization Neck Lift Blood from the Mouth Off with His Head! Frame-Up Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Heel–Face Turn Deal with the Devil Wicked Cultured Malevolent Masked Men Villain Song Russian Films As Long as It Sounds Foreign Children Are Innocent Depraved Bisexual Trailers Always Spoil Historical Villain Upgrade More Dakka Rule of Funny Improbable Aiming Skills Male Frontal Nudity Amoral Attorney Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Pet the Dog The Bad Guy Wins Retired Badass Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Rule of Three Deconstruction Protagonist Title No Antagonist Costume Porn Calling the Old Man Out Light Is Not Good Whole Plot Reference Good Is Not Nice No OSHA Compliance Hooker with a Heart of Gold The Stoic Properly Paranoid Shoot the Shaggy Dog It's All About Me Closed Circle