Tropescilloscope: Authority Equals Asskicking

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