Tropescilloscope: As Long as It Sounds Foreign

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Mad Scientist Honor Before Reason Psycho for Hire Retirony It's Personal Tranquil Fury Knight Templar Deadpan Snarker B-Movie I Want My Beloved to Be Happy I Need a Freaking Drink Room Full of Crazy Rated M for Manly Fainting What Happened to the Mouse? Defiant to the End Make It Look Like an Accident Market-Based Title The Quiet One One-Man Army Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Death by Adaptation Alliterative Name Leaning on the Fourth Wall Twist Ending Abhorrent Admirer Works Set in World War II Rule of Three Demoted to Extra Stalker with a Crush Loophole Abuse Blackmail Shout-Out Disappeared Dad The Atoner Aside Glance What You Are in the Dark It Will Never Catch On Deliberate Values Dissonance Redshirt Army Recycled IN SPACE! Pay Evil unto Evil The Chessmaster Chase Scene Intergenerational Friendship Manly Tears Ambiguously Gay Shown Their Work Shipper on Deck Danny Peary Cult Movies List Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Funny Background Event Adaptational Attractiveness Fourth Date Marriage Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Race Against the Clock Death Glare Dark Is Not Evil Daddy's Girl Christmas Movies Index Parental Abandonment The End... Or Is It? Logo Joke Anyone Can Die Film Noir Index Improvised Weapon The Stinger Unusual Euphemism Genre Shift Drives Like Crazy Evil Laugh Does This Remind You of Anything? Novelization The Smurfette Principle Rule of Symbolism Meaningful Name Four-Temperament Ensemble French Films Corrupt Corporate Executive Apocalypse How Anachronic Order Costume Porn Cat Fight An Aesop The Stoic Card-Carrying Villain Abusive Parents He Who Fights Monsters Not Even Bothering with the Accent Arc Words How We Got Here Insane Troll Logic Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor "The Reason You Suck" Speech Obviously Evil Adaptational Villainy Let's Get Dangerous! 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Dirty Cop Creator Cameo Karma Houdini Sports Stories Artistic License – Biology Men Are the Expendable Gender Damsel in Distress Serial Killer Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Black Best Friend Needs Wiki Magic Love Badass in a Nice Suit An Arm and a Leg Meaningful Echo The Bully Defrosting Ice Queen Killed Mid-Sentence Badass Bookworm Rape as Drama A Father to His Men The Un-Reveal All Just a Dream Hypocrite German Films Deliberately Monochrome Russian Films Big Applesauce Did Not Get the Girl The Bad Guy Wins The Place My Beloved Smother Gilligan Cut Hooker with a Heart of Gold Male Gaze Off with His Head! Biopic Camp Gay Break the Haughty Re-Cut Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Vomit Discretion Shot Historical Villain Upgrade Extremely Short Timespan Smoking Is Cool Artistic License – Gun Safety Nice Guy Fantasy Films Facial Horror Big Bad Genre Throwback The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Morality Pet Pragmatic Adaptation Naïve Newcomer You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Together in Death The '50s Hollywood Darkness The Power of Love Handicapped Badass The Sociopath Implacable Man Posthumous Character It's All About Me N-Word Privileges Plucky Comic Relief Covers Always Lie Irony And the Adventure Continues I Have Your Wife Italian Films Bloody Hilarious Sealed Evil in a Can More Dakka Index of Film Westerns Five-Man Band Cool Shades Trailers Always Spoil Drugs Are Bad Fake Shemp Not What It Looks Like A Date with Rosie Palms Cowboy Cop Central Theme Kids Are Cruel The Starscream All Men Are Perverts Leitmotif Dark Action Girl Villain Ball Woman in White Authority Equals Asskicking And I Must Scream Dual Wielding Grey and Gray Morality Put on a Bus Soft Glass You Killed My Father Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Big Fancy House Bullying a Dragon For Want of a Nail Heterosexual Life-Partners Canon Foreigner The Alleged Car There Is No Kill Like Overkill Unreliable Narrator Only One Name Taking the Bullet Unspoken Plan Guarantee Camera Abuse Unwitting Instigator of Doom All Girls Want Bad Boys One Steve Limit From Nobody to Nightmare Empathic Environment Eagleland La Résistance Neck Snap The Big Guy Took a Level in Jerkass Red Right Hand World of Ham My God, What Have I Done? 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Guy Adult Fear Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Monumental Damage Anti-Villain Bond One-Liner Domestic Abuse Call-Back Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Super Strength The Vamp Bound and Gagged Kick the Dog Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Insult Backfire Bunny-Ears Lawyer Bittersweet Ending Setting Update Romantic False Lead Truth in Television Brainless Beauty Credits Gag Dramedy What the Hell, Hero? Laughing Mad The '90s Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Horror Films Depraved Bisexual Throwing Your Sword Always Works Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Too Dumb to Live Only a Flesh Wound Anachronism Stew Cruel and Unusual Death Children Are Innocent It Can Think Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Karmic Death Hope Spot Historical In-Joke Madness Mantra Important Haircut Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Artistic License – Military Improbable Aiming Skills Conspicuous CG Call-Forward Chekhov's Gun timeperiod The '60s Storming the Castle Fantastic Racism Homage Badass Longcoat Made of Explodium Left the Background Music On Ghost Fiction Dying Moment of Awesome Video Credits Tempting Fate Red Eyes, Take Warning Bi the Way Japanese Films Hair-Trigger Temper Butt-Monkey Adaptational Badass Henpecked Husband I Did What I Had to Do Precision F-Strike Darkest Hour Badass Grandpa Real Life Writes the Plot No Celebrities Were Harmed All for Nothing Almost Kiss Pretty Little Headshots One-Word Title Spanner in the Works Face–Heel Turn Offscreen Teleportation Sinister Minister Fan Disservice Closed Circle The Musical Animal Motifs Take a Third Option Slasher Smile Adapted Out Martial Arts Movie Historical-Domain Character Nice Hat BFG Superhero Very Loosely Based on a True Story Soundtrack Dissonance Evil-Detecting Dog Small Name, Big Ego Be Careful What You Wish For Blood from the Mouth Get Out! 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Big-Bad Ensemble Stealth Hi/Bye Adults Are Useless Evil vs. Evil Spell My Name with an "S" Attempted Rape Vampire Fiction Breaking the Fourth Wall Revenge Daylight Horror Worthy Opponent Those Two Guys Man on Fire British Films Shirtless Scene Amusing Injuries Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Neck Lift Armor-Piercing Question Cool Old Lady Gold Digger Parental Substitute Poor Communication Kills Bring My Brown Pants Cassandra Truth He Knows Too Much Cluster F-Bomb Funny Foreigner Wicked Cultured Hate Sink Framing Device The Load Accidental Misnaming Meaningful Background Event Ms. Fanservice Knife Nut Unusually Uninteresting Sight Pretty in Mink Disney Villain Death A Minor Kidroduction Expository Hairstyle Change Bottomless Magazines Well-Intentioned Extremist Combat Pragmatist Only Sane Man Tagline "Awesome McCool" Name O.O.C. Is Serious Business Visual Pun Dressing as the Enemy Alpha Bitch Mystery and Detective Films The '80s Non-Indicative Name Shoot the Shaggy Dog Artistic License – Law Your Cheating Heart Parental Neglect I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Here We Go Again! The Alcoholic Loads and Loads of Characters Bare Your Midriff Yandere Batman Gambit Reality Has No Subtitles Naked People Are Funny The Ghost Protagonist Title Sequel Hook Refuge in Audacity Interrupted Suicide Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Is a Crapshoot Mercy Kill Love Triangle Real Life Fanservice Extra Bilingual Bonus Pre-Mortem One-Liner Silence Is Golden Ship Tease Evil Brit Spiritual Successor Heroic Sacrifice Early-Bird Cameo Dwindling Party Word of God Overly Long Gag Took a Level in Badass Villain Protagonist Big "NO!" Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Evil Sounds Deep Extreme Doormat Mistaken for Gay Eyepatch of Power Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" In Medias Res Fatal Flaw Obstructive Bureaucrat Advertised Extra Malevolent Masked Men Due to the Dead Spiteful Spit Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Have a Gay Old Time Never My Fault Informed Ability Author Avatar Match Cut Missing Mom Freudian Excuse Stock Footage Action Girl Dies Wide Open Ungrateful Bastard Fish out of Water Wretched Hive Auto Erotica Wrong Genre Savvy Dark and Troubled Past Car Fu Kubrick Stare Faking the Dead Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Obfuscating Stupidity Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Film Series Betty and Veronica Anti-Hero Properly Paranoid Gratuitous English No OSHA Compliance Retired Badass Mighty Whitey Fiery Redhead All There in the Script Major Injury Underreaction Age Lift Beware the Nice Ones Cold-Blooded Torture As the Good Book Says... An Axe to Grind Suspiciously Specific Denial Face Death with Dignity As You Know Ominous Latin Chanting