Tropescilloscope: Becoming the Mask

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More Tropes Artistic License – History Big "NO!" Only Sane Man Tranquil Fury Throwing Your Sword Always Works The Mafia The Great Depression Not Using the "Z" Word Department of Redundancy Department Match Cut Redemption Equals Death Adaptational Attractiveness Took a Level in Jerkass Rasputinian Death Be Careful What You Wish For And Starring Jerk Jock The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Precision F-Strike Cat Scare Cool Guns Not Quite Dead Failed a Spot Check Abhorrent Admirer Enemy Mine Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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Is a Crapshoot The Place All Girls Want Bad Boys Eureka Moment Adaptation Dye-Job Curse Cut Short Belligerent Sexual Tension Title Drop Moment Killer Camp Gay The Dog Bites Back Together in Death Red Shirt Affectionate Parody Naïve Newcomer Despair Event Horizon Small Name, Big Ego Worthy Opponent The End... Or Is It? 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Bad "Bad Acting" Action Genre Vitriolic Best Buds Kubrick Stare Award-Bait Song Fainting Chase Scene Stealth Pun Race Against the Clock Camera Abuse Mystery and Detective Films As Long as It Sounds Foreign Mooks Parental Incest Eagleland Monumental Damage Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Big Damn Heroes Black Dude Dies First Creator Cameo Evil Sounds Deep Sacrificial Lion Badass Bookworm The Film of the Book Attempted Rape As Himself Back from the Dead Random Events Plot The '60s Mighty Whitey The Ditz A Father to His Men Time Skip Cowboy Cop He Knows Too Much Romantic Comedy Fantastic Racism For Want of a Nail Drugs Are Bad Police are Useless Defrosting Ice Queen Deliberately Monochrome Cool Old Guy Playing Gertrude Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Madness Mantra Continuity Nod Novelization Disguised in Drag Final Girl "The Reason You Suck" Speech Actor Allusion Dropped a Bridge on Him Calling the Old Man Out Male Gaze Those Two Bad Guys Neck Snap Combat Pragmatist Developing Doomed Characters Super Strength Red Right Hand Catapult Nightmare Cain and Abel May–December Romance Historical-Domain Character Eye Scream Fantasy Films Works Set in World War II The '70s Gilligan Cut Adult Fear Handicapped Badass Jump Scare Badass Longcoat Canadian Movies Contrived Coincidence In the Back Parental Substitute The Casanova Would Hit a Girl Not What It Looks Like Big Bad Tap on the Head Leaning on the Fourth Wall Outrun the Fireball Grievous Bottley Harm Psycho for Hire Hell Is That Noise Grey and Gray Morality The Quiet One Cool Shades The X of Y Rich Bitch Stalker with a Crush In Name Only Anachronic Order Reality Ensues Cat Fight Creative Closing Credits Rated M for Manly Stock Footage Light Is Not Good Truth in Television Bi the Way Overly Long Gag Daylight Horror Dirty Old Man Driven to Suicide The Cavalry Skewed Priorities Pre-Mortem One-Liner Evil Laugh Black and Gray Morality The Bad Guy Wins Bad Boss Suspiciously Similar Substitute Dumb Blonde Bond One-Liner Would Hurt a Child For the Evulz Male Frontal Nudity Undying Loyalty Italian Films Even Evil Has Standards Men Are the Expendable Gender Heroic Sacrifice Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Chekhov's Skill Thriller Laughing Mad Made of Iron Naked People Are Funny Ms. Fanservice Ghost Fiction Music Stories Dirty Cop Anguished Declaration of Love Too Dumb to Live Here We Go Again! 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Guy Reality Has No Subtitles Flashback The Big Guy Leitmotif She's Got Legs Ass Shove No OSHA Compliance Self-Deprecation Demonic Possession Reasonable Authority Figure Apocalypse How Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Better to Die than Be Killed Rule of Cool Brutal Honesty Breaking the Fourth Wall The Chessmaster N-Word Privileges Red Eyes, Take Warning Soundtrack Dissonance Drowning My Sorrows Dark Is Not Evil Recycled IN SPACE! The Lost Lenore Mugging the Monster Meet Cute My Greatest Failure Pretty Little Headshots The Bully Disney Villain Death Accidental Misnaming Psychological Thriller Laser-Guided Karma Properly Paranoid Big Fancy House Drill Sergeant Nasty Storming the Castle Hypocrite Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Ungrateful Bastard Affably Evil Hope Spot Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Unusual Euphemism Once More, with Clarity! 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