Tropescilloscope: Badass Longcoat

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The Great Depression Title Drop Hong Kong Films "Awesome McCool" Name Butt-Monkey Index of Film Westerns Almost Kiss Morality Pet Jerkass Drowning My Sorrows Be Careful What You Wish For Too Dumb to Live Even Evil Has Loved Ones As You Know The Stinger One Steve Limit Gender Flip Disney Villain Death Meaningful Name Visual Pun Canadian Movies Soundtrack Dissonance The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Jerk with a Heart of Gold Nice Hat Cool Old Lady Diabolus ex Machina Awesome, but Impractical Trailers Always Spoil Greater-Scope Villain Vampire Fiction Token Minority Adaptational Attractiveness Friend to All Children Only in It for the Money I Need a Freaking Drink Cat Scare Hypocrite Married to the Job Getting Crap Past the Radar The Dreaded Mighty Whitey Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Brother–Sister Incest Coming-of-Age Story Green-Eyed Monster Redshirt Army Catch-Phrase Very Loosely Based on a True Story Large Ham She's Got Legs Bi the Way Serial Killer Arc Words Malevolent Masked Men Developing Doomed Characters Humiliation Conga For the Evulz Fanservice As Himself Bloody Hilarious Armor-Piercing Question Worthy Opponent Cold-Blooded Torture Creepy Child Your Cheating Heart The Dragon Ambiguously Gay Soft Glass Aluminum Christmas Trees Henpecked Husband Evil Counterpart Dirty Cop Casting Gag Unusual Euphemism Logo Joke Rule of Three Parental Substitute Groin Attack Shell-Shocked Veteran Storming the Castle Heroic Sacrifice Man on Fire O.O.C. Is Serious Business Early Installment Weirdness Hollywood Darkness Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Sadistic Choice Silent Movie No Ending Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Body Horror Recycled IN SPACE! Here We Go Again! Costume Porn Extremely Short Timespan The Ghost Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! A Minor Kidroduction Action Survivor Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Your Head A-Splode The Big Guy The Mafia Grievous Bottley Harm Eureka Moment Dramedy The Vamp Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Taking You with Me Adapted Out Artistic License – Biology Deal with the Devil No Celebrities Were Harmed Taking the Bullet Fire-Forged Friends Bloodless Carnage Action Girl Bald of Evil Depraved Bisexual Apocalypse How The Reveal Neck Lift Conspicuous CG Department of Redundancy Department Adaptational Badass Martial Arts Movie After the End Cool Car Film Series Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Heel–Face Turn Slashed Throat Horror Films Jerk Jock Anachronism Stew Neck Snap Take That! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Adults Are Useless Real Life Outrun the Fireball Batman Gambit Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique The Remake Fake Shemp Protagonist Title "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Heroic BSoD Vacation Films Camp Gay Cloudcuckoolander Slasher Movie Non-Indicative Name Science Fiction Films Faking the Dead An Axe to Grind One-Word Title Evil Brit Manchild And I Must Scream Once More, with Clarity! Distracted by the Sexy Ghost Fiction Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Not Even Bothering with the Accent Vomit Indiscretion Shot Earn Your Happy Ending Re-Cut Chekhov's Gun Girl-on-Girl Is Hot The Chick Race Lift Eiffel Tower Effect Motor Mouth Based on a True Story Corrupt Corporate Executive How We Got Here Cool Old Guy Famous Last Words Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Belligerent Sexual Tension Big Fancy House Ass Shove Half the Man He Used to Be Animal Motifs Off-into-the-Distance Ending Dirty Old Man Punny Name Bullying a Dragon Character Development Darkest Hour Defiant to the End Zombie Stories Revenge Historical Hero Upgrade Love at First Sight Last-Name Basis timeperiod Let's Get Dangerous! Defrosting Ice Queen Evil Is Hammy Villain Ball Dull Surprise Fiery Redhead Bowdlerise Destination Defenestration Stealth Pun Big Applesauce Parental Incest All Girls Want Bad Boys The Lancer Accidental Murder Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? The Voiceless Silence Is Golden Yandere More Dakka Expository Hairstyle Change Mexican Standoff Riddle for the Ages Mooks Laser-Guided Karma Freeze-Frame Bonus Imagine Spot Extreme Doormat Ripped from the Headlines B-Movie Not What It Looks Like Male Gaze Gratuitous English Big Eater Alliterative Name Sinister Minister Say My Name Not Quite Dead Superhero Homage Cruel and Unusual Death As Long as It Sounds Foreign Historical In-Joke Wrong Genre Savvy There Is No Kill Like Overkill Every Car Is a Pinto Vomit Discretion Shot Exactly What It Says on the Tin Left the Background Music On Ascended Extra Bar Brawl Flashback BFG Arranged Marriage Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Fat Bastard Beard of Evil French Films Skewed Priorities The Stoner Adaptational Villainy Dark Is Not Evil Only a Flesh Wound My God, What Have I Done? 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Creative Closing Credits The X of Y Bland-Name Product Heroes Want Redheads Closed Circle All for Nothing Maybe Ever After Toplessness from the Back Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Badass Boast Big Damn Heroes The Smurfette Principle Artistic License – Law Determinator The Stoic Four-Temperament Ensemble Domestic Abuse Mythology Gag Translation Convention The '80s The Power of Love Match Cut Mistaken for Gay Cowboy Cop Intrepid Reporter Up to Eleven Our Vampires Are Different Insane Troll Logic Make It Look Like an Accident Creator Cameo Big Brother Instinct Failed a Spot Check Room Full of Crazy Badass Grandpa Film Noir folderlabel Military and Warfare Films Dwindling Party Frame-Up Australian Movies Crazy Jealous Guy Annoying Younger Sibling Honor Before Reason Ungrateful Bastard Ambiguous Disorder Broken Aesop Fan Disservice Unreliable Narrator Pay Evil unto Evil Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Unspoken Plan Guarantee Shower Scene Dogged Nice Guy Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Insult Backfire Meet Cute World of Ham Took a Level in Jerkass Artistic License – History For Want of a Nail Truth in Television Freudian Excuse Authority Equals Asskicking Psychopathic Manchild Not So Above It All Handicapped Badass Knife Nut Canon Foreigner Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Gorn Epic Movie Made of Iron Fate Worse than Death Major Injury Underreaction Plucky Comic Relief The Ditz Tap on the Head You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Asshole Victim Funny Foreigner Mugging the Monster Death Glare Politically Incorrect Villain Eagleland It's All About Me My Beloved Smother Overprotective Dad Anyone Can Die Even Evil Has Standards Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Bilingual Bonus The Alleged Car Poor Communication Kills Monumental Damage Hate Sink All Men Are Perverts Disproportionate Retribution Disappeared Dad Badass Normal Darker and Edgier Reality Is Unrealistic Kick the Dog You Have Failed Me Mercy Kill Captain Ersatz Fingore Comically Missing the Point Face Death with Dignity Those Wacky Nazis Smug Snake Covers Always Lie Historical-Domain Character Decoy Protagonist Actor Allusion Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Badass Longcoat N-Word Privileges Obfuscating Stupidity Artistic License – Geography Air-Vent Passageway The Bad Guy Wins Eye Scream Spiteful Spit Those Two Guys Dark and Troubled Past The '90s Horror Comedy Eyepatch of Power Bunny-Ears Lawyer Pragmatic Villainy Laughing Mad Grey and Gray Morality Chekhov's Gunman The Load Amoral Attorney Cain and Abel Berserk Button German Films Rich Bitch Deliberately Monochrome Camera Abuse Pet the Dog Same Language Dub Age Lift Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Really Gets Around Hero Antagonist A Father to His Men Due to the Dead Becoming the Mask Obstructive Bureaucrat Blood from the Mouth Reality Has No Subtitles Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Agony of the Feet Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Paper-Thin Disguise Brick Joke Fatal Flaw Line-of-Sight Name Wham Line Ms. Fanservice Heterosexual Life-Partners Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Tempting Fate Call-Forward Children Are Innocent Spanner in the Works Bait-and-Switch Fish out of Water Brutal Honesty Manly Tears I Have Your Wife Exact Words Redemption Equals Death Disguised in Drag Names to Run Away from Really Fast Action Prologue All Just a Dream Important Haircut Foreshadowing The Brute Wham Shot Obviously Evil Adaptation Dye-Job Combat Pragmatist Advertised Extra Deadpan Snarker Captain Obvious Abhorrent Admirer Badass in a Nice Suit Leitmotif Disney Death Roaring Rampage of Revenge An Aesop Jerkass Has a Point Random Events Plot Guile Hero Hypocritical Humor Face–Heel Turn Bring My Brown Pants Narrator Fainting '80s Hair The Alcoholic NO INDOOR VOICE Villainous Breakdown Genre Shift Idiot Ball