Tropescilloscope: Badass Longcoat

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Big Bad Advertised Extra Decoy Protagonist Big Eater Authority Equals Asskicking Five-Man Band As Long as It Sounds Foreign Parental Abandonment All There in the Manual Hypocrite The X of Y Dwindling Party The Remake One-Man Army Documentary Crapsack World Smug Snake Madness Mantra Enemy Mine Suddenly SHOUTING! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Fingore Science Fiction Films Break the Haughty Serial Killer Action Girl Rape as Drama Demonic Possession Slashed Throat Small Name, Big Ego I Have Your Wife Call-Forward Corrupt Corporate Executive Bunny-Ears Lawyer Those Two Bad Guys Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Bloodless Carnage Ms. Fanservice Reality Has No Subtitles Martial Arts Movie Hell Is That Noise Outrun the Fireball Skewed Priorities Logo Joke Honor Before Reason Sacrificial Lion Line-of-Sight Name Dutch Angle Composite Character Tempting Fate Cat Fight Insistent Terminology Off with His Head! Artistic License – Physics Lampshade Hanging Captain Obvious Rule of Cool Slasher Smile Blatant Lies Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Rewatch Bonus Jerkass Sports Stories Alliterative Name No Name Given Index of Film Westerns Totally Radical Shipper on Deck Calling the Old Man Out Naked People Are Funny Stealth Pun Ascended Extra Ambiguous Disorder Villain Opening Scene Ghost Fiction Spiritual Successor Meaningful Background Event Mooks Bullying a Dragon Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" What You Are in the Dark Genre Shift Bare Your Midriff Never Trust a Trailer The Quiet One The Dog Bites Back Reckless Gun Usage Only a Flesh Wound Greater-Scope Villain Loophole Abuse Dual Wielding Unspoken Plan Guarantee Breaking the Fourth Wall Demoted to Extra Police Brutality Whole Plot Reference Driven to Suicide Early Installment Weirdness Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Time Skip Not So Stoic Hate Sink Setting Update The '50s Femme Fatale Monumental Damage Card-Carrying Villain Offscreen Teleportation Russian Films Rousing Speech Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Black Comedy Rape Evil Plan Made of Explodium Not Using the "Z" Word Big Applesauce Crucified Hero Shot Wounded Gazelle Gambit Book-Ends Throwing Your Sword Always Works Coming-of-Age Story Killed Mid-Sentence Brick Joke Sealed Evil in a Can Scare Chord Silence Is Golden Artistic License – Gun Safety Only Known by Their Nickname Music Stories Psychological Thriller Victoria's Secret Compartment Love at First Sight Revenge Butt-Monkey The '90s Christmas Movies Index Sole Survivor Missing Mom Plot Hole Early-Bird Cameo Black Best Friend Red Eyes, Take Warning Thriller Big Fancy House The Mole Truth in Television Wicked Cultured Adaptation Name Change Spanner in the Works British Films Evil Counterpart Kubrick Stare I Need a Freaking Drink Last-Name Basis Author Avatar Taking the Bullet NO INDOOR VOICE Hypocritical Humor The Musical Accidental Misnaming "Well Done, Son!" 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Is a Crapshoot An Axe to Grind And I Must Scream Vitriolic Best Buds Dark Action Girl Deconstruction Token Minority Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy As Himself The Smurfette Principle Say My Name A God Am I Hope Spot Stealth Hi/Bye Kill It with Fire Comically Missing the Point Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Creative Closing Credits Deliberate Values Dissonance Narrator "Awesome McCool" Name Evil Brit Tagline MacGuffin Earn Your Happy Ending Vomit Indiscretion Shot Abusive Parents Together in Death Australian Movies Extremely Short Timespan The Chick Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Everyone Has Standards Artistic License – Military Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique "Shaggy Dog" Story Chekhov's Gun Evil-Detecting Dog Final Girl Dull Surprise Poor Communication Kills Closed Circle Kids Are Cruel Meaningful Name Fun with Acronyms Irony Imagine Spot Meet Cute Dirty Old Man Disguised in Drag There Is No Kill Like Overkill Vacation Films Evil vs. Evil German Films Once More, with Clarity! 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Or Is It? 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Psychopathic Manchild Genre Savvy Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer O.O.C. 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It's All About Me Retired Badass Face Death with Dignity Straight Gay Animated Credits Opening Dirty Coward N-Word Privileges Affably Evil Boom, Headshot! Betty and Veronica Woman in White Determinator Mugging the Monster Shout-Out Artistic License – Law Eye Scream Homage Casting Gag Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome From Bad to Worse folderlabel Wretched Hive Dressing as the Enemy Have a Gay Old Time Room Full of Crazy Older Than They Look Half the Man He Used to Be Age Lift Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Insult Backfire No-Sell Evil Is Petty Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Adult Fear Historical-Domain Character Happily Married Refuge in Audacity Cloudcuckoolander Berserk Button Good Is Not Nice Punch-Clock Villain Obstructive Bureaucrat All for Nothing Red Right Hand B-Movie Hoist by His Own Petard Badass Longcoat The '60s Let's Get Dangerous! The Chessmaster The Dreaded Dissonant Serenity Dramedy Only Sane Man Death of a Child May–December Romance You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Alas, Poor Villain Heterosexual Life-Partners Mistaken for Gay Unwitting Instigator of Doom Bloody Hilarious Cat Scare I Want My Beloved to Be Happy After the End Not So Above It All The Lancer Grey and Gray Morality Artistic License – History Bond Villain Stupidity Mexican Standoff You Have Failed Me Adaptational Attractiveness Creepy Child The Great Depression Villain with Good Publicity Beauty Is Never Tarnished