Tropescilloscope: As Long as It Sounds Foreign

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Throwing Your Sword Always Works Villain Song Vitriolic Best Buds Our Vampires Are Different The '80s Setting Update Age Lift Evil-Detecting Dog Dwindling Party "Well Done, Son!" Guy Big-Bad Ensemble Bilingual Bonus The Hero Dies The Casanova Shoot the Shaggy Dog Romantic False Lead Even Evil Has Loved Ones Mr. Fanservice Famous Last Words Product Placement Room Full of Crazy Auto Erotica Alpha Bitch Beard of Evil You Have Failed Me Breaking the Fourth Wall No-Sell Tranquil Fury Blackmail Stealth Hi/Bye Celebrity Paradox Japanese Films Brick Joke Annoying Younger Sibling How We Got Here The Bad Guy Wins Neck Snap Cruel and Unusual Death Canadian Movies Pretty Little Headshots The '60s Antagonist Title One-Word Title Adaptational Heroism Leaning on the Fourth Wall The Big Guy A Date with Rosie Palms Humans Are Bastards Star-Crossed Lovers Obstructive Bureaucrat Shirtless Scene Freeze-Frame Bonus Cowboy Cop Flipping the Bird Interrupted Suicide Monumental Damage Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Moment Killer Beta Couple Have a Gay Old Time Arc Words Fatal Flaw Mood Whiplash In the Back I Need a Freaking Drink The Stinger Man on Fire Big Bad Cool Car Drives Like Crazy Heterosexual Life-Partners Five-Man Band It Will Never Catch On Badass Normal Horror Comedy Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Jerk Jock Take That! 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Your Cheating Heart Deadpan Snarker Love Triangle Death Seeker Homage Hollywood Darkness Christmas Movies Index Blood from the Mouth The Vamp The Mafia Black Best Friend Damsel in Distress Take a Third Option Fate Worse than Death No Ending Creator Cameo No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Big Damn Heroes Drill Sergeant Nasty True Companions Contrived Coincidence Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Anti-Villain Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Suspiciously Specific Denial Leave the Camera Running Character Development Hypocrite Ironic Echo Badass Boast The Alleged Car Cloudcuckoolander The Dragon Continuity Nod Nice Guy Dark Reprise Heroic Sacrifice La Résistance Artistic License – Physics Covers Always Lie "Shaggy Dog" Story War Is Hell Manchild Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Police Brutality Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Mistaken for Gay Foregone Conclusion Precision F-Strike Narrator Reasonable Authority Figure Asshole Victim Earn Your Happy Ending Scenery Porn Femme Fatale Mundane Made Awesome Unwitting Instigator of Doom Adaptational Badass Arranged Marriage Unreliable Narrator Karma Houdini Action Prologue Insult Backfire Names to Run Away from Really Fast Obfuscating Stupidity Advertised Extra Big Fancy House Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas As You Know Amoral Attorney Rule of Symbolism The Ghost The Chick Determinator aka: The Determinator Casting Gag Skewed Priorities A.I. Is a Crapshoot Wounded Gazelle Gambit Composite Character Arch-Enemy Due to the Dead Deconstruction Black and Gray Morality Artistic License – Military O.O.C. Is Serious Business Brother–Sister Incest Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Fat Bastard Bring My Brown Pants Documentary Everyone Has Standards Black Comedy Closed Circle Evil Is Petty Villain Ball Cat Fight Noodle Incident Sports Stories Call-Back Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Once More, with Clarity! 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Fake Shemp Lighter and Softer Humiliation Conga Line-of-Sight Name Mercy Kill Fish out of Water A God Am I Pre-Mortem One-Liner Alliterative Name Badass Longcoat Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Only a Flesh Wound Suspiciously Similar Substitute Self-Deprecation Victoria's Secret Compartment Parental Neglect Artistic License – Law Adaptational Attractiveness Big Brother Instinct Karmic Death Made of Explodium Madness Mantra Framing Device Those Wacky Nazis Action Genre Logo Joke All Just a Dream Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Sinister Minister Hero of Another Story Improbable Weapon User Gender Flip Spiteful Spit Disappeared Dad Abhorrent Admirer Grievous Bottley Harm Crazy-Prepared The Dog Bites Back Russian Films For Want of a Nail Eye Scream Retirony Bloodier and Gorier Slasher Movie '80s Hair Dumb Blonde Ms. Fanservice Driven to Suicide Overly Long Gag Bloody Hilarious All There in the Manual Meet Cute The '90s Shut Up, Hannibal! Sassy Black Woman Lampshade Hanging Non-Indicative Name Villain Opening Scene Thriller Shown Their Work 20 Minutes into the Future My God, What Have I Done? Gory Discretion Shot Better to Die than Be Killed Race Against the Clock Handicapped Badass Actor Allusion Defiant to the End Not What It Looks Like Insane Troll Logic Big "NO!" 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