Tropescilloscope: Based on a True Story

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From Nobody to Nightmare Deal with the Devil Bound and Gagged Evil Is Petty La Résistance Epic Fail Broken Bird Evil Plan Same Language Dub Room Full of Crazy The Alleged Car Eiffel Tower Effect Establishing Character Moment Annoying Younger Sibling Failed a Spot Check Older Than They Look Precision F-Strike Sinister Minister An Aesop Shout-Out It's All About Me Four-Temperament Ensemble Chekhov's Gunman Major Injury Underreaction I Need a Freaking Drink Suspiciously Similar Substitute Last-Name Basis No Ending Monumental Damage The Cavalry War Is Hell Rule of Symbolism Every Car Is a Pinto Adaptational Heroism Anti-Villain Say My Name Pay Evil unto Evil Rule of Three Beware the Nice Ones Bond One-Liner Actor Allusion The Smurfette Principle Ax-Crazy Agony of the Feet Red Herring Hypocritical Humor Have a Gay Old Time Bottomless Magazines Naïve Newcomer Blatant Lies Camp Gay Retcon '80s Hair As the Good Book Says... Superhero Mugging the Monster Didn't Think This Through Better to Die than Be Killed Male Gaze Rule of Cool No Antagonist The Stoic Historical In-Joke N-Word Privileges Wretched Hive Air-Vent Passageway Improvised Weapon Disguised in Drag Aluminum Christmas Trees Breaking the Fourth Wall The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Documentary Dressing as the Enemy No Name Given No-Sell Token Minority Fish out of Water In the Back From Bad to Worse Death Seeker Unreliable Narrator Red Shirt Author Avatar Dark Reprise Disney Death Stealth Pun Fan Disservice The Voiceless Improbable Aiming Skills Animal Title Index The Lancer Taking You with Me Heterosexual Life-Partners Sexy Discretion Shot Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Not Even Bothering with the Accent Star-Crossed Lovers Heel Realization Frame-Up Truth in Television You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Vomit Indiscretion Shot Adaptational Attractiveness Darker and Edgier The Oner The Bully The End... Or Is It? Pyrrhic Victory Shoot the Shaggy Dog One Steve Limit Unusual Euphemism Based on a True Story Central Theme Lock and Load Montage Hero of Another Story Beauty Is Never Tarnished Black Comedy Rape Evil Counterpart Loads and Loads of Characters Animated Credits Opening Disappeared Dad Needs Wiki Magic Love Setting Update Fingore Even Evil Has Standards Kill 'em All The Atoner Black Best Friend Amoral Attorney Get Out! Due to the Dead Badass in a Nice Suit Together in Death Body Horror I Did What I Had to Do Shower Scene Translation Convention Only One Name Took a Level in Jerkass Well-Intentioned Extremist Advertised Extra Ascended Extra Cool Shades All There in the Manual Visual Pun Fantastic Racism Film Series Mooks How We Got Here Intergenerational Friendship Riddle for the Ages Roaring Rampage of Revenge Bolivian Army Ending Badass Bookworm Not So Different The Power of Love The Lost Lenore Those Two Guys Humiliation Conga Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Extreme Doormat Music Stories Take a Third Option Damsel in Distress My Greatest Failure No OSHA Compliance Horror Comedy Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Creepy Child Abusive Parents Obfuscating Stupidity Dramatic Gun Cock Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Big Damn Heroes Spared by the Adaptation The Brute I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Dark and Troubled Past My Beloved Smother Wicked Cultured The '70s NO INDOOR VOICE May–December Romance Mama Bear Deus ex Machina Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Playing Gertrude Sequel Hook Heroes Want Redheads Trailers Always Spoil Black and Gray Morality Extremely Short Timespan Blood Knight Non-Indicative Name Pretty in Mink Demoted to Extra Actually Pretty Funny Action Girl Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Romantic Comedy Woman Scorned Totally Radical No-Holds-Barred Beatdown O.O.C. Is Serious Business Historical Villain Upgrade Drives Like Crazy Very Loosely Based on a True Story Gender Flip The Cameo Expy Combat Pragmatist Deconstruction Overly Long Gag Jerkass Has a Point Novelization I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Adaptation Name Change Sassy Black Woman Those Two Bad Guys Chase Scene Red Right Hand Psychopathic Manchild Evil Is Hammy Product Placement Celebrity Paradox Not Quite Dead Unresolved Sexual Tension Hollywood Law Anachronic Order Training Montage Woman in White Artistic License – Gun Safety Affably Evil Meaningful Echo Once More, with Clarity! Film Noir Dirty Old Man Real Life As Long as It Sounds Foreign Back from the Dead Serious Business The Sociopath Defiant to the End Knight Templar Final Girl Parental Substitute Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Bullying a Dragon Hidden Depths Anachronism Stew Death by Sex Red Oni, Blue Oni Grievous Bottley Harm Overprotective Dad Zombie Stories Epic Movie Bland-Name Product Crucified Hero Shot Wounded Gazelle Gambit Instant Death Bullet Almost Kiss Big Brother Instinct Sanity Slippage Sadistic Choice Eye Scream Captain Ersatz The Dog Bites Back Morality Pet Neck Snap Arch-Enemy Laughing Mad Psycho for Hire Domestic Abuse Eagleland Artistic License – Military More Dakka Moment Killer Spanner in the Works Parental Incest Pre-Mortem One-Liner Names to Run Away from Really Fast Scare Chord Immune to Bullets Guile Hero Danny Peary Cult Movies List Big Bad Duumvirate Anguished Declaration of Love Adaptational Badass Does Not Like Shoes What the Hell, Hero? Never Found the Body MacGuffin Throwing Your Sword Always Works Ship Tease Mad Scientist Dirty Coward Double Entendre Interrupted Suicide Adaptational Villainy Fanservice Extra After the End Kick the Dog Beta Couple Stepford Smiler Serial Killer The '50s Punny Name Pretty Little Headshots Bare Your Midriff Male Frontal Nudity Karma Houdini The Casanova Politically Incorrect Villain Cat Fight Race Against the Clock Wham Shot Ambiguously Gay Sir Swears-a-Lot Reckless Gun Usage Leave the Camera Running German Films Mundane Made Awesome Facial Horror Reasonable Authority Figure Humans Are Bastards Bury Your Gays She Cleans Up Nicely Horror Films Mistaken for Gay Hooker with a Heart of Gold Foil Villain Ball Getting Crap Past the Radar It's Personal Credits Gag Expository Hairstyle Change Cluster F-Bomb Did Not Get the Girl Maybe Ever After I Have Your Wife Only Known by Their Nickname The Vamp Double-Meaning Title Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Death Glare Jerk with a Heart of Gold Stuff Blowing Up Dramatic Irony Bad Boss The Mafia Cool Guns Continuity Nod Rewatch Bonus Eureka Moment Unspoken Plan Guarantee Not Using the "Z" Word Foregone Conclusion Pragmatic Villainy Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Faking the Dead Properly Paranoid Dies Wide Open Deliberate Values Dissonance Cowboy Cop Blackmail Scenery Porn Light Is Not Good Drowning My Sorrows The Alcoholic timeperiod The Bad Guy Wins Storming the Castle Bar Brawl Tagline Freeze-Frame Bonus Butt-Monkey Becoming the Mask Artistic License – Geography Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Word of God Red Eyes, Take Warning Destination Defenestration Brutal Honesty Manic Pixie Dream Girl Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Black Comedy Jerk Jock Famous Last Words Naked People Are Funny Bloodless Carnage Neck Lift "The Reason You Suck" Speech Posthumous Character Loophole Abuse "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Flashback Badass Grandpa Action Survivor Corpsing Let's Get Dangerous! 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Self-Deprecation Green-Eyed Monster Idiot Ball No Celebrities Were Harmed Eyepatch of Power Chiaroscuro Unusually Uninteresting Sight Police are Useless Science Fiction Films The Ghost Gold Digger Vacation Films Evil-Detecting Dog Thriller Biopic Mood Whiplash Spell My Name with an "S" Nice Hat Creator Cameo French Films The Big Guy Hong Kong Films Break the Cutie Dutch Angle Gorn Retired Badass Mercy Kill Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Redemption Equals Death Villain Song Heroic BSoD Framing Device Enemy Mine Beard of Evil Fate Worse than Death Only Sane Man Fiery Redhead Line-of-Sight Name Jump Scare Badass Boast Betty and Veronica Bi the Way Tap on the Head Face–Heel Turn Married to the Job Adorkable Martial Arts Movie Diabolus ex Machina Defrosting Ice Queen "Well Done, Son!" Guy Mexican Standoff Closed Circle Narrator Would Hit a Girl The Hero Dies Manchild Greater-Scope Villain Aside Glance Attempted Rape Card-Carrying Villain Only in It for the Money Meaningful Name Man on Fire Madness Mantra Soft Glass Chewing the Scenery Love Triangle Boom, Headshot! Fanservice All Men Are Perverts Pre-Asskicking One-Liner The Dragon Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! World of Ham Exactly What It Says on the Tin Big Applesauce The Stoner Plot Hole Manly Tears Corrupt Corporate Executive Punch-Clock Villain Accidental Misnaming Stylistic Suck He Knows Too Much Bunny-Ears Lawyer Dumb Blonde Homage Captain Obvious Smoking Is Cool Catch-Phrase Poor Communication Kills Cool Old Guy Happily Married Cloudcuckoolander Historical Hero Upgrade Big Bad The '60s Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Cat Scare A Minor Kidroduction Fatal Family Photo Department of Redundancy Department Creative Closing Credits One-Man Army Car Fu Crapsack World Guns Akimbo Shell-Shocked Veteran All Girls Want Bad Boys Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Outrun the Fireball I'm a Humanitarian Accidental Murder Deadpan Snarker Fourth Date Marriage Covers Always Lie Reality Has No Subtitles You Have Failed Me Video Credits Rousing Speech Spiritual Successor The X of Y Skewed Priorities The Chick Babies Ever After Really Gets Around Country Matters Wrong Genre Savvy Mythology Gag Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Leaning on the Fourth Wall Alliterative Name Those Wacky Nazis Silent Movie Pimped-Out Dress Camera Abuse Public Domain Feature Films Ambiguous Ending Time Skip And the Adventure Continues My God, What Have I Done? Spiteful Spit Mystery and Detective Films Half the Man He Used to Be Crazy-Prepared Up to Eleven Early-Bird Cameo Batman Gambit Fantasy Films Alas, Poor Villain Not So Stoic The Hero True Companions Shirtless Scene Fake Shemp Laser-Guided Karma Straight Gay folderlabel Anyone Can Die Nice Guy Parental Abandonment Even Evil Has Loved Ones Australian Movies Leitmotif Dying Moment of Awesome BFG Dark Is Not Evil Antagonist Title Artistic License – Physics Hell Is That Noise Not What It Looks Like Manipulative Bastard Nothing Is Scarier The Stinger Early Installment Weirdness Death of a Child Twist Ending Groin Attack Pragmatic Adaptation Mr. Fanservice Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun A Father to His Men You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Papa Wolf Knife Nut Dirty Cop Japanese Films Grey and Gray Morality Empathic Environment Offscreen Teleportation Missing Mom Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Kubrick Stare Karmic Death Genre Shift Killed Mid-Sentence Random Events Plot Affectionate Parody Tempting Fate Distracted by the Sexy A Date with Rosie Palms Handicapped Badass Composite Character Sealed Evil in a Can Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Men Are the Expendable Gender Berserk Button Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Bloodier and Gorier Implacable Man Arranged Marriage And I Must Scream Christmas Movies Index Big Eater Improbable Weapon User Villain Opening Scene Call-Back Whole Plot Reference Ambiguous Disorder Kill It with Fire Romantic False Lead Here We Go Again! Never My Fault Lampshade Hanging Heel–Face Turn Action Prologue Curse Cut Short Brick Joke The Mole Ghost Fiction The Starscream Drugs Are Bad Honor Before Reason Dull Surprise For the Evulz Comically Missing the Point Rule of Funny Slasher Movie Eldritch Abomination Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Shown Their Work The Chessmaster Real Life Writes the Plot Make It Look Like an Accident Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Sports Stories Super Strength Made of Explodium Intrepid Reporter Rasputinian Death "Awesome McCool" Name Funny Foreigner Gratuitous English Apocalypse How Decoy Protagonist Off-into-the-Distance Ending Psychological Thriller The Dreaded Take That! Noodle Incident Depraved Bisexual Face Death with Dignity Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Slashed Throat As You Know Bait-and-Switch Calling the Old Man Out The Quiet One Gone Horribly Right Imagine Spot Artistic License – History The Musical Italian Films Faux Affably Evil Works Set in World War II Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Cain and Abel In Medias Res Canon Foreigner Historical-Domain Character Never Trust a Trailer Downer Ending Dramedy The '80s Bowdlerise British Films Everyone Has Standards Ass Shove Adaptation Distillation Drill Sergeant Nasty Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Hypocrite Too Dumb to Live Death by Irony Film Noir Index In Name Only Foreshadowing The Place Hero Antagonist Only a Flesh Wound Informed Ability Black Dude Dies First Evil Brit Our Vampires Are Different Suspiciously Specific Denial Henpecked Husband Children Are Innocent Dark Action Girl Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Author Appeal Parental Neglect You Killed My Father Fatal Flaw Friend to All Children Award-Bait Song The Great Depression Genre Throwback Daddy's Girl Soundtrack Dissonance Slasher Smile Fat Bastard Hollywood Darkness Insane Troll Logic Villainous Breakdown Vomit Discretion Shot Protagonist Title Fire-Forged Friends Hair-Trigger Temper Redshirt Army Chekhov's Gun This Is Gonna Suck Adaptation Dye-Job Reality Ensues Race Lift The Load Your Head A-Splode Cruel and Unusual Death Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping It Can Think 20 Minutes into the Future