Tropescilloscope: Badass Longcoat

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Those Two Guys Hero of Another Story Mexican Standoff Five-Man Band Ass Shove Bloodless Carnage Big Eater Left the Background Music On Villain Protagonist Martial Arts Movie N-Word Privileges Jitter Cam Dark Action Girl Stylistic Suck Alpha Bitch Air-Vent Passageway Outrun the Fireball Artistic License – Biology Villain Opening Scene Establishing Character Moment Mistaken for Gay Kubrick Stare Vitriolic Best Buds Fatal Family Photo Needs Wiki Magic Love Eureka Moment Together in Death Break the Cutie Villain Ball No Antagonist Room Full of Crazy Novelization Shower Scene Imagine Spot Freeze-Frame Bonus The Mole Say My Name Wham Shot There Is No Kill Like Overkill Superhero My Greatest Failure Bond Villain Stupidity A God Am I Credits Gag Brainless Beauty Half the Man He Used to Be Drowning My Sorrows Public Domain Feature Films The Alleged Car Big Bad Duumvirate Took a Level in Jerkass Spanner in the Works Anachronic Order Fanservice Does This Remind You of Anything? Lock and Load Montage Anguished Declaration of Love "Well Done, Son!" Guy Off-into-the-Distance Ending Rule of Funny Idiot Ball Our Zombies Are Different Mooks Immune to Bullets Missing Mom Catch-Phrase Pay Evil unto Evil Noodle Incident Amoral Attorney Even Evil Has Loved Ones Danny Peary Cult Movies List Ambiguously Gay Vacation Films Ironic Echo Dying Moment of Awesome Manic Pixie Dream Girl Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Off with His Head! Black Comedy Rape The Remake Police are Useless Empathic Environment Cold-Blooded Torture Gory Discretion Shot Curb-Stomp Battle The Casanova Genre Shift Intergenerational Friendship Big Fancy House The Lost Lenore The Ghost Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Bury Your Gays "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Double Entendre Have a Gay Old Time Black and Gray Morality Bowdlerise Adaptational Villainy Insane Troll Logic Ambiguous Disorder Reality Has No Subtitles The Dog Bites Back Time Skip May–December Romance Running Gag Market-Based Title Shut Up, Hannibal! Bad Boss Would Hurt a Child Pragmatic Adaptation From Bad to Worse Broken Pedestal Distracted by the Sexy Funny Background Event Artistic License – History Death Glare Guile Hero Did Not Get the Girl Nothing Is Scarier Knight Templar The Alcoholic Manipulative Bastard An Aesop Drugs Are Bad Real Life Mad Scientist Red Herring Beta Couple Not Even Bothering with the Accent Paper-Thin Disguise Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Nice Guy Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Precision F-Strike Captain Obvious Villainous Breakdown Tap on the Head Match Cut Canadian Movies timeperiod Shown Their Work The Vamp Whole Plot Reference Would Hit a Girl Combat Pragmatist '80s Hair No-Sell Central Theme Throwing Your Sword Always Works The Stoner Character Development Crazy-Prepared Rule of Symbolism Bad "Bad Acting" Manchild Blood from the Mouth Hell Is That Noise Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Due to the Dead Age Lift Adaptational Badass Affectionate Parody After the End Adaptation Name Change Bound and Gagged Man on Fire Fantasy Films Dropped a Bridge on Him Heterosexual Life-Partners Unreliable Narrator Evil Sounds Deep "The Reason You Suck" Speech Evil vs. Evil As You Know Asshole Victim Based on a True Story All There in the Manual Gorn Gratuitous English Big "NO!" Evil Is Petty Non-Indicative Name Hope Spot Shirtless Scene Cat Scare Deliberate Values Dissonance Retired Badass Alas, Poor Villain Slashed Throat Rule of Cool Canon Foreigner Police Brutality Children Are Innocent Red Right Hand NO INDOOR VOICE Abhorrent Admirer Covers Always Lie Fat Bastard Destination Defenestration In Medias Res Kids Are Cruel Big-Bad Ensemble Redshirt Army Chekhov's Gunman Suspiciously Similar Substitute Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Silent Movie German Films Butt-Monkey Made of Explodium Every Car Is a Pinto Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Biopic Taking the Bullet Slasher Movie Evil Brit Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Morality Pet Rich Bitch Karmic Death Double-Meaning Title Works Set in World War II The Bad Guy Wins Only Sane Man Aside Glance Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Love Triangle Badass Normal Vomit Discretion Shot Cloudcuckoolander Disproportionate Retribution Face–Heel Turn Spell My Name with an "S" Hollywood Law I Did What I Had to Do Unusual Euphemism Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Serious Business Put on a Bus Deliberately Monochrome Video Credits Broken Aesop Animal Motifs Film Noir Index I Have Your Wife For the Evulz The Bully No Ending Expy Historical-Domain Character Pre-Mortem One-Liner Break the Haughty World of Ham Posthumous Character Dirty Coward Christmas Movies Index Television Movie Index Batman Gambit Word of God Irony Drill Sergeant Nasty Military and Warfare Films Death by Adaptation Arch-Enemy Victoria's Secret Compartment Ambiguous Ending The Smart Guy Disguised in Drag Rousing Speech Bond One-Liner Scenery Gorn Driven to Suicide Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Facial Horror Only Known by Their Nickname The '60s Scare Chord Faking the Dead Bavarian Fire Drill Silence Is Golden Unspoken Plan Guarantee Reckless Gun Usage Shout-Out All Just a Dream Papa Wolf You Killed My Father All Girls Want Bad Boys Obstructive Bureaucrat Sci-Fi Horror Heroes Want Redheads Artistic License – Military Obviously Evil Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Dwindling Party Parental Abandonment Black Best Friend Historical Hero Upgrade Science Fiction Films folderlabel Anti-Villain Meaningful Echo Accidental Murder Jerk Jock I'm a Humanitarian Meaningful Background Event Lighter and Softer Eye Scream Genre Throwback Hooker with a Heart of Gold Japanese Films Psychopathic Manchild Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Better to Die than Be Killed Agony of the Feet Anyone Can Die Framing Device Karma Houdini Calling the Old Man Out Diabolus ex Machina Race Lift Well-Intentioned Extremist Bland-Name Product As Himself Captain Ersatz Romantic Comedy Boom, Headshot! Tranquil Fury He Knows Too Much Suddenly SHOUTING! Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Naked People Are Funny The Power of Love Dramatic Gun Cock Heroic Sacrifice Amusing Injuries Cowboy Cop Take a Third Option Big Brother Instinct Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Adaptation Expansion Fire-Forged Friends Reality Is Unrealistic Annoying Younger Sibling Token Minority Actor Allusion Russian Films Bare Your Midriff Hero Antagonist Gone Horribly Right Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Evil Plan You Have Failed Me Very Loosely Based on a True Story Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Bait-and-Switch Large Ham La Résistance Continuity Nod Accidental Misnaming Gilligan Cut Screw the Money, I Have Rules! And I Must Scream Conspicuous CG Adults Are Useless Italian Films Green-Eyed Monster Straight Gay Getting Crap Past the Radar Wrong Genre Savvy She's Got Legs Men Are the Expendable Gender Male Gaze The Lancer Awesome, but Impractical Cruel and Unusual Death Attempted Rape One Steve Limit Exact Words Camp Gay Small Name, Big Ego Villain Song Reasonable Authority Figure Stealth Pun Neck Lift One-Man Army Improbable Aiming Skills Title Drop Failed a Spot Check Badass Longcoat Humans Are Bastards Hypocritical Humor Animated Credits Opening Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Parental Neglect Wounded Gazelle Gambit Flipping the Bird Documentary More Dakka Slap-Slap-Kiss Beauty Is Never Tarnished Action Genre Unresolved Sexual Tension Heroic BSoD What the Hell, Hero? Dumb Blonde The X of Y An Arm and a Leg Epic Movie Not What It Looks Like Training Montage Fantastic Racism Logo Joke Implacable Man Costume Porn Sanity Slippage Chewing the Scenery Authority Equals Asskicking He Who Fights Monsters No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Card-Carrying Villain Improbable Weapon User Fish out of Water Riddle for the Ages Woman in White The Ace Even Evil Has Standards Body Horror Oh, Crap! The Reveal Disappeared Dad Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Music Stories Romantic False Lead Bring My Brown Pants The '70s Frame-Up Meaningful Name Sexy Discretion Shot Mr. Fanservice Malevolent Masked Men Coming-of-Age Story Artistic License – Physics Rule of Three Offscreen Moment of Awesome Adaptational Heroism Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Line-of-Sight Name Mighty Whitey Bi the Way Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Aluminum Christmas Trees Only a Flesh Wound Important Haircut Your Cheating Heart In Name Only Greater-Scope Villain Despair Event Horizon Determinator The Quiet One Sole Survivor Translation Convention Spared by the Adaptation Sacrificial Lion Artistic License – Gun Safety Trailers Always Spoil Unusually Uninteresting Sight Index of Film Westerns Action Prologue Improvised Weapon Hidden Depths Punch-Clock Villain Rape as Drama Setting Update Protagonist Title Chiaroscuro Creepy Child Department of Redundancy Department Country Matters Fanservice Extra Loads and Loads of Characters Wretched Hive Spiteful Spit Rated M for Manly Evil Is Hammy Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Take That! The Cavalry Domestic Abuse Final Girl Evil Counterpart Mundane Made Awesome Faux Affably Evil An Axe to Grind Skewed Priorities Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Hypocrite Curse Cut Short Kick the Son of a Bitch "Awesome McCool" Name The Place Four-Temperament Ensemble Bunny-Ears Lawyer Sealed Evil in a Can Disney Death Red Eyes, Take Warning Eiffel Tower Effect Horror Comedy Playing Gertrude Rasputinian Death Disney Villain Death Took a Level in Badass Sports Stories What You Are in the Dark Taking You with Me Laughing Mad Death by Irony Defrosting Ice Queen Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Leave the Camera Running No Celebrities Were Harmed Worthy Opponent Henpecked Husband The Hero Author Avatar Armor-Piercing Question Maybe Ever After Instant Death Bullet Hoist by His Own Petard Those Wacky Nazis Male Frontal Nudity I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Recycled IN SPACE! Insult Backfire Mr. Exposition Revenge Only in It for the Money Auto Erotica Neck Snap Tempting Fate Gender Flip Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Adaptation Dye-Job Affably Evil Dies Wide Open Creator Cameo Heel Realization French Films Married to the Job Almost Kiss It Will Never Catch On Twist Ending Truth in Television Fiery Redhead Up to Eleven Spiritual Successor Badass Boast Naïve Newcomer Cool Old Guy Bilingual Bonus Refuge in Audacity Parental Incest It Can Think Corrupt Corporate Executive Beware the Nice Ones All There in the Script Abusive Parents Wham Line The Faceless Girl-on-Girl Is Hot A Date with Rosie Palms Bloodier and Gorier The Chessmaster I Need a Freaking Drink Crucified Hero Shot Deadpan Snarker Visual Pun Tagline Exactly What It Says on the Tin What Happened to the Mouse? Fan Disservice Stalker with a Crush Mind Screw Leaning on the Fourth Wall Not Quite Dead Guns Akimbo Damsel in Distress Foil Blood Knight Random Events Plot Bald of Evil My God, What Have I Done? Expository Hairstyle Change How We Got Here Deal with the Devil Killed Mid-Sentence Cool Car Enemy Mine Never Trust a Trailer Honor Before Reason Anachronism Stew Groin Attack Cain and Abel Crapsack World Cool Guns Older Than They Look Camera Abuse Arranged Marriage Freudian Excuse The Stinger Cassandra Truth Adaptational Attractiveness Demoted to Extra Kill It with Fire Happily Married Book-Ends From Nobody to Nightmare As Long as It Sounds Foreign Pet the Dog Everyone Has Standards Jerkass Has a Point Drives Like Crazy Cool Old Lady Car Fu Bitch in Sheep's Clothing She Cleans Up Nicely Homage Fun with Acronyms Early Installment Weirdness Your Head A-Splode Action Survivor Evil-Detecting Dog Epic Fail Monumental Damage Jump Scare Really Gets Around Alliterative Name Gold Digger Be Careful What You Wish For Smug Snake Evil Laugh A Minor Kidroduction In the Back Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Death by Sex Artistic License – Geography A.I. Is a Crapshoot Toplessness from the Back Psychological Thriller Mystery and Detective Films Stealth Hi/Bye The Smurfette Principle Chase Scene Redemption Equals Death Hollywood Darkness No OSHA Compliance Ungrateful Bastard Deus ex Machina Parental Substitute Sir Swears-a-Lot You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Rewatch Bonus Deconstruction Antagonist Title Woman Scorned Villain with Good Publicity Fainting Knife Nut Shoot the Shaggy Dog Big Bad Dogged Nice Guy Brick Joke Historical In-Joke Slasher Smile Psycho for Hire All Men Are Perverts The Load Made of Iron Soft Glass The Atoner Funny Foreigner The '80s Jerk with a Heart of Gold Never My Fault Adapted Out Once More, with Clarity! Laser-Guided Karma Dissonant Serenity It's Personal Actually Pretty Funny Didn't Think This Through Dirty Old Man Mama Bear Hate Sink Broken Bird Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Intrepid Reporter Pretty in Mink Decoy Protagonist Ascended Extra Kick the Dog Only One Name Betty and Veronica Motor Mouth Brutal Honesty The Brute Shell-Shocked Veteran Storming the Castle Easily Forgiven Sassy Black Woman Dramatic Irony Action Girl Hair-Trigger Temper Vampire Fiction Leitmotif Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Plucky Comic Relief Film Series Adaptation Distillation The Starscream Black Dude Dies First Loophole Abuse The Cameo The '90s Overly Long Gag Product Placement Sinister Minister Dutch Angle Demonic Possession Heel–Face Turn Re-Cut Our Vampires Are Different Dual Wielding And Starring BFG The Dragon Bittersweet Ending Get Out! Good Is Not Nice Thriller Australian Movies Arc Words Madness Mantra Death of a Child Badass Grandpa Historical Villain Upgrade The Voiceless Stock Footage True Companions Wicked Cultured Chekhov's Gun Fate Worse than Death Genre Savvy The '50s Last-Name Basis Nice Hat Sequel Hook Ominous Latin Chanting Ship Tease The Big Guy Those Two Bad Guys Extreme Doormat Daddy's Girl Sequel Escalation This Is Gonna Suck Dark Reprise The End... Or Is It? Cluster F-Bomb Smoking Is Cool Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Too Dumb to Live Moment Killer Lampshade Hanging Babies Ever After Reality Ensues Belligerent Sexual Tension Berserk Button B-Movie Fingore Foreshadowing Catapult Nightmare Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Retirony Interrupted Suicide Flashback Darker and Edgier War Is Hell Determinator aka: The Determinator One-Word Title Offscreen Teleportation Poor Communication Kills Not Using the "Z" Word Defiant to the End Mood Whiplash Celebrity Paradox Ripped from the Headlines Insistent Terminology Earn Your Happy Ending Here We Go Again! Dark and Troubled Past A Father to His Men Mugging the Monster Black Comedy Bullying a Dragon Comically Missing the Point Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Hong Kong Films It's All About Me The Un-Reveal Corpsing Roaring Rampage of Revenge Totally Radical Narrator Make It Look Like an Accident Pragmatic Villainy Soundtrack Dissonance Brother–Sister Incest Dark Is Not Evil Extremely Short Timespan Cool Shades Beard of Evil Dull Surprise Contrived Coincidence Yandere Femme Fatale The Oner Blackmail The Great Depression Dirty Cop Artistic License – Law Pimped-Out Dress No Name Given Roger Ebert: Great Movies List You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Show Within a Show Stuff Blowing Up Names to Run Away from Really Fast Red Oni, Blue Oni British Films MacGuffin Vomit Indiscretion Shot Award-Bait Song Same Language Dub Race Against the Clock Real Life Writes the Plot Properly Paranoid Ax-Crazy My Beloved Smother Retcon Chekhov's Skill Casting Gag Sadistic Choice O.O.C. Is Serious Business All for Nothing Friend to All Children No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Does Not Like Shoes Not So Different Jerkass Blatant Lies The Film of the Book Bolivian Army Ending Suspiciously Specific Denial Badass in a Nice Suit Self-Deprecation Not So Above It All 20 Minutes into the Future Let's Get Dangerous! Bloody Hilarious Call-Back Closed Circle Major Injury Underreaction Anti-Hero I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Downer Ending Dramedy Foregone Conclusion Red Shirt Darkest Hour Face Death with Dignity Handicapped Badass Pyrrhic Victory Bottomless Magazines Grievous Bottley Harm Breaking the Fourth Wall Eldritch Abomination Grey and Gray Morality Stepford Smiler Super Strength Manly Tears Badass Bookworm The Chick Ghost Fiction Punny Name Not So Stoic The Hero Dies Plot Hole Dressing as the Enemy The Ditz Bar Brawl And the Adventure Continues Informed Ability As the Good Book Says... Never Found the Body Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Gainax Ending Serial Killer Humiliation Conga Ms. Fanservice Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Author Appeal Undying Loyalty Light Is Not Good "Shaggy Dog" Story Obfuscating Stupidity