Tropescilloscope: Badass Longcoat

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Hell Is That Noise Suspiciously Specific Denial Maybe Ever After Tagline Drill Sergeant Nasty Spiteful Spit Blackmail Cloudcuckoolander I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Italian Films Obviously Evil Never My Fault And I Must Scream Hypocrite Expository Hairstyle Change Closed Circle Only Sane Man Chekhov's Gunman Sassy Black Woman Jerkass After the End No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Bolivian Army Ending Air-Vent Passageway Combat Pragmatist Evil Is Petty Artistic License – Gun Safety Roaring Rampage of Revenge Shout-Out Double-Meaning Title Properly Paranoid Star-Crossed Lovers Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Amusing Injuries Costume Porn Canadian Movies Evil Sounds Deep Camera Abuse The Alleged Car Man on Fire Parental Neglect Four-Temperament Ensemble Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Happily Married Unwitting Instigator of Doom A.I. 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Aluminum Christmas Trees Very Loosely Based on a True Story Smoking Is Cool Actually Pretty Funny Dark Action Girl Red Oni, Blue Oni Stealth Hi/Bye Fat Bastard Villainous Breakdown Irony And the Adventure Continues Setting Update Homage Failed a Spot Check Distracted by the Sexy The Stoic Word of God Creative Closing Credits Military and Warfare Films Attempted Rape Anyone Can Die Villain Protagonist Action Girl Artistic License – Physics Smug Snake Improbable Weapon User Moment Killer Evil Counterpart The Bad Guy Wins Public Domain Feature Films Call-Back The Mafia Manchild The Great Depression Arranged Marriage Line-of-Sight Name Cluster F-Bomb timeperiod Rape as Drama Vomit Indiscretion Shot The Power of Love Wretched Hive Empathic Environment Evil-Detecting Dog Mystery and Detective Films Not So Above It All Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Ghost Fiction Exactly What It Says on the Tin Insistent Terminology Off-into-the-Distance Ending Evil Plan Overprotective Dad No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Brick Joke Training Montage As the Good Book Says... 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Insult Backfire Men Are the Expendable Gender Monumental Damage Disappeared Dad As Long as It Sounds Foreign Deadpan Snarker Corpsing "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue One-Man Army Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Epic Movie Woman Scorned Adults Are Useless Card-Carrying Villain The Quiet One Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Tempting Fate The Hero The Cavalry Only a Flesh Wound Market-Based Title Author Appeal "Awesome McCool" Name Shut Up, Hannibal! Mama Bear Cowboy Cop Trailers Always Spoil Historical Villain Upgrade Bloody Hilarious Last-Name Basis Up to Eleven She Cleans Up Nicely Disproportionate Retribution Index of Film Westerns Age Lift Meet Cute Too Dumb to Live Bullying a Dragon Retirony Better to Die than Be Killed Dirty Coward Gender Flip Interrupted Suicide Lampshade Hanging Missing Mom Catapult Nightmare The Musical The Dreaded Affectionate Parody Take a Third Option Fake Shemp Romantic False Lead BFG Put on a Bus Older Than They Look Fan Disservice Action Survivor Ripped from the Headlines Deconstruction Groin Attack The Lancer You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! The Stinger Dark Reprise Did Not Get the Girl Villain Opening Scene Serious Business Red Shirt Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Cold-Blooded Torture Sole Survivor Pre-Mortem One-Liner Your Head A-Splode Those Two Bad Guys Dissonant Serenity Scare Chord Heroic Sacrifice Left the Background Music On A God Am I Yandere Police are Useless Famous Last Words Novelization Match Cut Oh, Crap! Demonic Possession Documentary Break the Haughty Hair-Trigger Temper Instant Death Bullet Not Quite Dead Bavarian Fire Drill Back from the Dead Meaningful Name Heroes Want Redheads Mr. Exposition From Nobody to Nightmare Get Out! 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Freudian Excuse Loads and Loads of Characters Kids Are Cruel Protagonist Title Lighter and Softer Diabolus ex Machina Bald of Evil Fun with Acronyms I Need a Freaking Drink Curse Cut Short Belligerent Sexual Tension Leitmotif O.O.C. Is Serious Business Madness Mantra Bunny-Ears Lawyer Here We Go Again! Unusual Euphemism Immune to Bullets Adaptational Badass Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Didn't Think This Through Politically Incorrect Villain Plucky Comic Relief Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other No OSHA Compliance Enemy Mine Adult Fear All There in the Manual French Films Truth in Television Extremely Short Timespan Black Comedy Rape Darker and Edgier Super Strength The Reveal Recycled IN SPACE! 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