Tropescilloscope: Badass Longcoat

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Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Mooks Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality It Can Think Police are Useless Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Fat Bastard Call-Back Based on a True Story Author Appeal Fantastic Racism Eagleland The Smart Guy Fiery Redhead Amusing Injuries Meaningful Background Event Made of Explodium Didn't Think This Through Spiritual Successor Reckless Gun Usage Product Placement I Need a Freaking Drink Cat Fight Eureka Moment Shut Up, Hannibal! Five-Man Band Screw the Money, I Have Rules! As You Know Badass Longcoat Foregone Conclusion Extreme Doormat Serious Business All Men Are Perverts Stylistic Suck What the Hell, Hero? Villain Song Stealth Hi/Bye Knife Nut Black Comedy Even Evil Has Loved Ones Dark and Troubled Past Reality Ensues Bare Your Midriff Age Lift She Cleans Up Nicely Big Applesauce The Load Adaptation Expansion Big "NO!" 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Male Gaze Affably Evil Flipping the Bird Double Entendre Riddle for the Ages Fatal Family Photo Death by Adaptation How We Got Here Every Car Is a Pinto Auto Erotica No OSHA Compliance Undying Loyalty Precision F-Strike Gilligan Cut Broken Bird Artistic License – Gun Safety Russian Films Big Eater Creator Cameo Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Action Survivor It's Personal Historical Hero Upgrade Reasonable Authority Figure Enemy Mine Meaningful Echo Red Right Hand Your Cheating Heart Darker and Edgier Implacable Man Artistic License – History A Minor Kidroduction Obfuscating Stupidity Grievous Bottley Harm O.O.C. Is Serious Business Not Even Bothering with the Accent Manchild Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Nice Hat Beta Couple Award-Bait Song Broken Aesop The '50s Antagonist Title The Oner Bond One-Liner Victoria's Secret Compartment Humiliation Conga Domestic Abuse Outrun the Fireball Fainting Irony Laughing Mad Made of Iron Married to the Job Interrupted Suicide Blackmail An Arm and a Leg Heroic BSoD Missing Mom Death Seeker Silence Is Golden "Well Done, Son!" 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The Ghost The Atoner The Dreaded Super Strength Kick the Son of a Bitch Wham Shot Those Two Bad Guys Extremely Short Timespan Plucky Comic Relief Hoist by His Own Petard Badass Grandpa Rasputinian Death Big Fancy House Male Frontal Nudity Morality Pet Due to the Dead The Stoic Tempting Fate Big Bad Duumvirate Those Two Guys And I Must Scream Action Prologue Plot Hole Dramedy Cassandra Truth Line-of-Sight Name Jump Scare Major Injury Underreaction Serial Killer Rule of Symbolism Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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No Celebrities Were Harmed Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Early-Bird Cameo Hate Sink Overly Long Gag Retirony Adaptational Badass Not Using the "Z" Word May–December Romance Race Lift The Starscream Actor Allusion The Smurfette Principle Cold-Blooded Torture A God Am I Never Found the Body Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Dramatic Irony The Casanova Lampshade Hanging Sadistic Choice Show Within a Show Laser-Guided Karma Match Cut Your Head A-Splode Insane Troll Logic Red Herring Chekhov's Gun The End... Or Is It? Make It Look Like an Accident French Films My God, What Have I Done? 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Red Oni, Blue Oni Authority Equals Asskicking Spanner in the Works Insult Backfire Novelization Rousing Speech Crucified Hero Shot Foreshadowing Older Than They Look The Brute Villain Protagonist Happily Married Hair-Trigger Temper The Alcoholic Greater-Scope Villain The Bad Guy Wins Those Wacky Nazis Deliberate Values Dissonance Heel Realization Adaptational Attractiveness "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Moment Killer Redshirt Army Training Montage For Want of a Nail Mind Screw Big Damn Heroes Badass Boast A Father to His Men Costume Porn Breaking the Fourth Wall Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Unusually Uninteresting Sight Cat Scare The Lancer Artistic License – Biology Bond Villain Stupidity Friend to All Children Papa Wolf Woman in White Does Not Like Shoes Ascended Extra Let's Get Dangerous! Insistent Terminology Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Deus ex Machina Downer Ending Politically Incorrect Villain Fingore Fun with Acronyms The Dragon Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Brutal Honesty Improbable Weapon User Femme Fatale Beard of Evil Parental Neglect The Alleged Car Did Not Get the Girl Bar Brawl Stuff Blowing Up Demoted to Extra Chekhov's Skill Freudian Excuse An Axe to Grind Humans Are Bastards Awesome, but Impractical Refuge in Audacity Blood Knight Wham Line Adapted Out Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Rewatch Bonus Military and Warfare Films Narrator Psychopathic Manchild Mr. Fanservice B-Movie Manipulative Bastard Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Badass in a Nice Suit Cool Car Bury Your Gays Cloudcuckoolander Kubrick Stare The Great Depression Setting Update Suspiciously Specific Denial Market-Based Title Camp Gay Film Series Ambiguously Gay Last-Name Basis Unspoken Plan Guarantee Adults Are Useless Jitter Cam I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Poor Communication Kills Trailers Always Spoil Blood from the Mouth Creative Closing Credits Jerkass Hero of Another Story Dutch Angle Genre Savvy Took a Level in Jerkass Adaptation Distillation Damsel in Distress Only in It for the Money Bowdlerise Framing Device For the Evulz Truth in Television Earn Your Happy Ending Armor-Piercing Question Cowboy Cop Only Sane Man Cool Shades Destination Defenestration Ironic Echo Smug Snake Smoking Is Cool Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Red Eyes, Take Warning The Cavalry Evil Plan Establishing Character Moment Redemption Equals Death Naïve Newcomer Deadpan Snarker All There in the Manual Obviously Evil Pragmatic Adaptation Heel–Face Turn Genre Shift Stealth Pun Catapult Nightmare Ship Tease Credits Gag Even Evil Has Standards Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Everyone Has Standards Informed Ability Big Bad Tagline Woman Scorned War Is Hell Dark Reprise Light Is Not Good Heterosexual Life-Partners Genre Throwback Distracted by the Sexy I Have Your Wife The Chessmaster Large Ham Deconstruction Country Matters Karmic Death NO INDOOR VOICE The Dog Bites Back Film Noir Index Psychological Thriller Action Genre Meaningful Name Not What It Looks Like "Awesome McCool" Name The Lost Lenore No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Would Hit a Girl Hong Kong Films Vomit Discretion Shot Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Killed Mid-Sentence Playing Gertrude Crapsack World Batman Gambit Driven to Suicide Crazy-Prepared Logo Joke Exactly What It Says on the Tin Adult Fear Mistaken for Gay No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Rule of Cool Flashback Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Red Shirt Bad "Bad Acting" Pay Evil unto Evil Gorn Back from the Dead Hope Spot Time Skip Pimped-Out Dress Epic Movie Animal Motifs Casting Gag Slasher Movie Break the Haughty Catch-Phrase Lighter and Softer Posthumous Character More Dakka Australian Movies Pragmatic Villainy N-Word Privileges Drugs Are Bad Bloodier and Gorier Bolivian Army Ending Film Noir Sanity Slippage Once More, with Clarity! Continuity Nod Beware the Nice Ones Dissonant Serenity Bring My Brown Pants Brainless Beauty Unusual Euphemism Manic Pixie Dream Girl Very Loosely Based on a True Story Better to Die than Be Killed You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Off with His Head! Knight Templar In Name Only Evil Is Petty Never Trust a Trailer Adaptational Villainy Kill It with Fire Anachronic Order Dropped a Bridge on Him Loads and Loads of Characters Green-Eyed Monster Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Corrupt Corporate Executive Fish out of Water The '90s Evil Is Hammy From Nobody to Nightmare Good Is Not Nice Video Credits Dirty Old Man Random Events Plot Famous Last Words Parental Substitute Have a Gay Old Time Coming-of-Age Story Improvised Weapon Mugging the Monster Hidden Depths Names to Run Away from Really Fast Berserk Button Eldritch Abomination Dogged Nice Guy Men Are the Expendable Gender Heroic Sacrifice Love Triangle Apocalypse How Noodle Incident Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Air-Vent Passageway Sinister Minister Alpha Bitch Ass Shove Zombie Stories '80s Hair Fate Worse than Death Cruel and Unusual Death Monumental Damage All for Nothing Fanservice Kids Are Cruel Man on Fire Calling the Old Man Out Music Stories The Faceless One Steve Limit Almost Kiss Jerk Jock Hollywood Darkness Broken Pedestal Composite Character Retcon Lock and Load Montage Pretty Little Headshots Facial Horror Punny Name Badass Normal Public Domain Feature Films Curse Cut Short I Did What I Had to Do Only a Flesh Wound Creepy Child Celebrity Paradox Sexy Discretion Shot Beauty Is Never Tarnished Revenge Demonic Possession Suspiciously Similar Substitute Captain Ersatz Badass Bookworm Sequel Escalation Important Haircut The Stoner Protagonist Title Mood Whiplash Paper-Thin Disguise Accidental Murder Room Full of Crazy Fan Disservice Running Gag Villain Opening Scene Evil Brit Rule of Funny A Date with Rosie Palms Maybe Ever After Not So Stoic Evil Counterpart timeperiod Same Language Dub Easily Forgiven Deal with the Devil Annoying Younger Sibling Bloodless Carnage Pyrrhic Victory Covers Always Lie Half the Man He Used to Be Tranquil Fury Vomit Indiscretion Shot The Remake Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Artistic License – Law Anyone Can Die Arch-Enemy Left the Background Music On Only One Name Eye Scream Improbable Aiming Skills Worthy Opponent Sealed Evil in a Can Death by Irony Mythology Gag Immune to Bullets Action Girl Ms. Fanservice German Films Really Gets Around Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Pre-Mortem One-Liner Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Kill 'em All Here We Go Again! Mercy Kill Race Against the Clock Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Eyepatch of Power Fourth Date Marriage It's All About Me I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Wicked Cultured Straight Gay Evil Sounds Deep There Is No Kill Like Overkill Vitriolic Best Buds Reality Has No Subtitles Ax-Crazy Defrosting Ice Queen Yandere Mama Bear This Is Gonna Suck Big-Bad Ensemble Malevolent Masked Men Taking the Bullet Motor Mouth Chekhov's Gunman Mr. Exposition Shower Scene Nothing Is Scarier The Bully Camera Abuse Chiaroscuro Be Careful What You Wish For Leave the Camera Running Death by Sex As the Good Book Says... Sequel Hook Blonde, Brunette, Redhead One-Word Title Ambiguous Ending Only Known by Their Nickname Disney Villain Death "The Reason You Suck" Speech Vacation Films Shipper on Deck Dying Moment of Awesome Anti-Villain Slasher Smile Ambiguous Disorder Bilingual Bonus Shout-Out Diabolus ex Machina Index of Film Westerns Crazy Jealous Guy Gratuitous English 20 Minutes into the Future Police Brutality Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Small Name, Big Ego Death of a Child Slap-Slap-Kiss Fantasy Films Adaptation Dye-Job Stepford Smiler