Tropescilloscope: Beauty Is Never Tarnished

Girls hardly get dirty or scuffed; that takes away from their beauty! (read more at tvtropes.org)

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For! Emphasis! Red Right Hand Malevolent Masked Men Continuity Nod The Dog Bites Back Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Badass Bookworm Gender Flip Camp Gay Stuff Blowing Up It Will Never Catch On Beware the Nice Ones Pretty in Mink Femme Fatale Ugly Guy, Hot Wife The End... Or Is It? Plot Hole Running Gag Award-Bait Song Redemption Equals Death Apocalypse How Roaring Rampage of Revenge The Film of the Book I Need a Freaking Drink Lampshade Hanging Knight Templar Fake Shemp Vomit Discretion Shot Unreliable Narrator Five-Man Band Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Ass Shove Neck Snap Freeze-Frame Bonus Bowdlerise Danny Peary Cult Movies List How We Got Here Brainless Beauty She's Got Legs I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Science Fiction Films Not Even Bothering with the Accent Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Vitriolic Best Buds Big Fancy House Historical Villain Upgrade Greater-Scope Villain Take a Third Option Adult Fear Grievous Bottley Harm Everyone Has Standards Adaptation Distillation Big Eater Faking the Dead Bunny-Ears Lawyer Protagonist Title Not Quite Dead Spanner in the Works From Nobody to Nightmare Wicked Cultured Epic Fail Sassy Black Woman Comically Missing the Point The Lost Lenore Artistic License – Military Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Hidden Depths Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Villain Protagonist Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Race Lift Dirty Coward Dies Wide Open Butt-Monkey Motor Mouth Curse Cut Short Real Life Writes the Plot Combat Pragmatist Homage Disney Death Historical Hero Upgrade Ripped from the Headlines Properly Paranoid Drugs Are Bad Adaptational Heroism Public Domain Feature Films Framing Device Big Bad Fatal Flaw Amoral Attorney Beard of Evil Hoist by His Own Petard Dirty Old Man Extremely Short Timespan Extreme Doormat Actor Allusion Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Same Language Dub Dwindling Party Villain Ball Evil Sounds Deep Shown Their Work The Bad Guy Wins Serious Business Ship Tease Card-Carrying Villain Not Using the "Z" Word Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Bar Brawl No OSHA Compliance Riddle for the Ages Credits Gag Male Gaze Chase Scene Knife Nut Arranged Marriage Manly Tears In the Back Stalker with a Crush Horror Comedy Scenery Gorn Market-Based Title Break the Cutie Amusing Injuries Self-Deprecation Never Trust a Trailer MacGuffin Gorn Irony Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Car Fu Soft Glass Double-Meaning Title Dark and Troubled Past Deal with the Devil Eyepatch of Power For the Evulz Fun with Acronyms Precision F-Strike Police are Useless Groin Attack Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Meaningful Name Twist Ending Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience In Name Only Chewing the Scenery It's Personal Mama Bear Kick the Son of a Bitch Superhero Face–Heel Turn Four-Temperament Ensemble Insult Backfire Your Head A-Splode O.O.C. Is Serious Business Rousing Speech Evil Is Petty Hollywood Darkness Failed a Spot Check Evil Plan Drowning My Sorrows Chiaroscuro Product Placement Even Evil Has Loved Ones Scary Black Man Shout-Out French Films Spiritual Successor Word of God Action Genre Eiffel Tower Effect Flipping the Bird I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Would Hit a Girl What Happened to the Mouse? Smoking Is Cool Pimped-Out Dress He Knows Too Much Demoted to Extra Mooks Hypocrite No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Frame-Up Cowboy Cop Large Ham Neck Lift All for Nothing Reckless Gun Usage Jerkass Has a Point Bury Your Gays Blackmail Interrupted Suicide Shipper on Deck Expository Hairstyle Change Celebrity Paradox Bare Your Midriff Hate Sink Based on a True Story The Big Guy Retired Badass Fat Bastard Toplessness from the Back Not What It Looks Like Big Bad Duumvirate Honor Before Reason Facial Horror Offscreen Teleportation Tempting Fate Sexy Discretion Shot Documentary The '60s Foreshadowing Genre Savvy Pre-Mortem One-Liner Drill Sergeant Nasty Calling the Old Man Out Shoot the Shaggy Dog Easily Forgiven Mr. Fanservice He Who Fights Monsters Meaningful Background Event Deconstruction The '70s Dying Moment of Awesome Never My Fault Logo Joke Whole Plot Reference Babies Ever After All Girls Want Bad Boys Italian Films Wretched Hive Unusually Uninteresting Sight Wham Line Big Applesauce Hero Antagonist Cold-Blooded Torture Red Oni, Blue Oni Killed Mid-Sentence Meaningful Echo Death by Sex Spiteful Spit Creepy Child Didn't Think This Through Index of Film Westerns Love Triangle "The Reason You Suck" Speech Anti-Hero The Dreaded The Alcoholic Black Comedy Rape Asshole Victim Instant Death Bullet Grey and Gray Morality She Cleans Up Nicely Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Woman in White Dutch Angle Friend to All Children Laser-Guided Karma Music Stories Anyone Can Die Off with His Head! Intergenerational Friendship Sequel Escalation Male Frontal Nudity Better to Die than Be Killed Non-Indicative Name Sir Swears-a-Lot The '80s Made of Iron Guns Akimbo Developing Doomed Characters Idiot Ball No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Dramedy Eye Scream Boom, Headshot! Never Found the Body The Ace Historical In-Joke One-Man Army Pragmatic Villainy One Steve Limit Demonic Possession Suddenly SHOUTING! Composite Character Evil Brit It's All About Me Creator Cameo Big Brother Instinct Stepford Smiler Get Out! Madness Mantra Evil Cannot Comprehend Good The Cameo Ambiguous Ending Adorkable Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Book-Ends Darker and Edgier Captain Ersatz Downer Ending Oh, Crap! 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Blatant Lies Stealth Pun Author Appeal All There in the Manual Overprotective Dad Major Injury Underreaction What You Are in the Dark Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Bad "Bad Acting" Missing Mom Cat Fight Naked People Are Funny Gold Digger Bloody Hilarious Slashed Throat Slasher Smile Video Credits Reality Is Unrealistic Police Brutality Race Against the Clock Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Dual Wielding Only in It for the Money Mythology Gag Ragtag Bunch of Misfits The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Girl-on-Girl Is Hot The Voiceless Noodle Incident Deadpan Snarker Papa Wolf Leave the Camera Running Disney Villain Death Heroic BSoD Evil Laugh The Cavalry Decoy Protagonist And I Must Scream Adaptational Badass Even Evil Has Standards Badass Longcoat Rewatch Bonus Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Accidental Murder Gilligan Cut Cat Scare Screw the Money, I Have Rules! The Ditz La Résistance Country Matters Tagline Catch-Phrase Canadian Movies Corrupt Corporate Executive As Himself Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Shut Up, Hannibal! Henpecked Husband Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Epilogue Sole Survivor 20 Minutes into the Future Bolivian Army Ending Ambiguous Disorder Throwing Your Sword Always Works Auto Erotica Red Eyes, Take Warning Annoying Younger Sibling Hero of Another Story Animal Title Index Arc Words Slap-Slap-Kiss Historical-Domain Character Zombie Stories Hell Is That Noise The X of Y Ironic Echo As You Know Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Undying Loyalty Mighty Whitey Villain with Good Publicity Sealed Evil in a Can The Vamp Fate Worse than Death Fan Disservice Fiery Redhead Bittersweet Ending Punch-Clock Villain Defiant to the End Daddy's Girl Crapsack World Soundtrack Dissonance Overly Long Gag Due to the Dead Dropped a Bridge on Him Closed Circle Alliterative Name Parental Incest Man on Fire Rated M for Manly As the Good Book Says... 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Is a Crapshoot Covers Always Lie Rape as Drama In Medias Res Early-Bird Cameo Sacrificial Lion Ominous Latin Chanting Daylight Horror Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Genre Shift Unspoken Plan Guarantee Stealth Hi/Bye Real Life More Dakka Improbable Weapon User Blood from the Mouth Trailers Always Spoil Despair Event Horizon Badass Boast An Aesop Obviously Evil Camera Abuse Needs Wiki Magic Love Spared by the Adaptation Punny Name Rich Bitch There Is No Kill Like Overkill Defrosting Ice Queen It Can Think Screw the Rules, I Have Money! All There in the Script Black Dude Dies First Sports Stories Distracted by the Sexy Mistaken for Gay Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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