Tropescilloscope: Big Applesauce

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Adaptational Villainy Breaking the Fourth Wall Heterosexual Life-Partners Would Hit a Girl Adults Are Useless Shout-Out All There in the Script The '50s Rule of Cool Catapult Nightmare The Power of Love Black Comedy Rule of Three Artistic License – Law Reality Has No Subtitles Vampire Fiction Even Evil Has Loved Ones Anguished Declaration of Love Paper-Thin Disguise Heroic BSoD Self-Deprecation Cool Old Guy Loophole Abuse Video Credits Novelization Extremely Short Timespan Only Known by Their Nickname Alliterative Name Bound and Gagged Anti-Villain Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Manchild Precision F-Strike Naked People Are Funny Whole Plot Reference Market-Based Title Police Brutality Title Drop Wounded Gazelle Gambit Gilligan Cut Adorkable One-Word Title Red Herring Gory Discretion Shot A Minor Kidroduction Tagline Bad "Bad Acting" Jerkass Has a Point Death of a Child Refuge in Audacity Improbable Aiming Skills Does This Remind You of Anything? Action Girl Imagine Spot Batman Gambit Chase Scene Disney Villain Death Exactly What It Says on the Tin Captain Obvious Faux Affably Evil Shell-Shocked Veteran Deliberate Values Dissonance Serial Killer Cat Fight As Long as It Sounds Foreign Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Sole Survivor I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Dramatic Irony Fun with Acronyms Mr. Fanservice Neck Lift Maybe Ever After British Films Random Events Plot Reasonable Authority Figure An Aesop The '90s In Medias Res No Celebrities Were Harmed Unusual Euphemism Bring My Brown Pants Wrong Genre Savvy Attempted Rape No Name Given Even Evil Has Standards The '70s Slashed Throat Eiffel Tower Effect B-Movie Overly Long Gag Combat Pragmatist Cowboy Cop Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Due to the Dead Protagonist Title Abhorrent Admirer Casting Gag Kick the Dog Artistic License – Geography Insult Backfire Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Award-Bait Song Those Two Guys Horror Comedy Accidental Misnaming Parental Incest Woman in White All There in the Manual Knight Templar Chekhov's Gun Intergenerational Friendship Cluster F-Bomb Corpsing Expository Hairstyle Change Framing Device Dies Wide Open Insane Troll Logic The Vamp The Reveal Sadistic Choice I Did What I Had to Do Cool Car Kubrick Stare Villain Protagonist Biopic I Need a Freaking Drink Eureka Moment Heroes Want Redheads "Shaggy Dog" Story Cold-Blooded Torture Cassandra Truth Jerkass Sir Swears-a-Lot An Axe to Grind No Ending The Atoner O.O.C. Is Serious Business Hypocrite And Starring Offscreen Moment of Awesome Costume Porn Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Redshirt Army Race Lift Reality Is Unrealistic Captain Ersatz Face–Heel Turn Call-Back Let's Get Dangerous! Retired Badass Ugly Guy, Hot Wife The Oner Ghost Fiction N-Word Privileges Parental Abandonment Ascended Extra The Alleged Car Eldritch Abomination Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Japanese Films Major Injury Underreaction Death by Adaptation Badass Grandpa Television Movie Index For the Evulz Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Moment Killer Evil Plan It's Personal Character Development Meaningful Name Grievous Bottley Harm Air-Vent Passageway Historical Hero Upgrade Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Red Oni, Blue Oni Sexy Discretion Shot Psychological Thriller Curse Cut Short Spiteful Spit Apocalypse How Mistaken for Gay Never Trust a Trailer Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Oh, Crap! Same Language Dub No OSHA Compliance Developing Doomed Characters And I Must Scream Kids Are Cruel Retirony Skewed Priorities Contrived Coincidence Lock and Load Montage Chekhov's Skill The '80s Animated Credits Opening Karmic Death Riddle for the Ages Department of Redundancy Department Dark Action Girl Mighty Whitey Failed a Spot Check Mercy Kill Hoist by His Own Petard Bolivian Army Ending Superhero Mad Scientist Leaning on the Fourth Wall Action Prologue Hope Spot Handicapped Badass Defiant to the End The Hero Dies Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Hollywood Law Public Domain Feature Films Outrun the Fireball Storming the Castle Tempting Fate Obfuscating Stupidity Fanservice Cruel and Unusual Death Drives Like Crazy Awesome, but Impractical One-Man Army The Brute Film Series Determinator NO INDOOR VOICE As You Know Famous Last Words Offscreen Teleportation All for Nothing Adapted Out Took a Level in Badass Disappeared Dad Groin Attack Italian Films Dropped a Bridge on Him Needs Wiki Magic Love The Dragon Death by Irony Pragmatic Adaptation Off-into-the-Distance Ending Obstructive Bureaucrat Humans Are Bastards Leave the Camera Running folderlabel Punctuated! 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Spared by the Adaptation Meet Cute Shower Scene Star-Crossed Lovers Composite Character Not Using the "Z" Word Left the Background Music On Ironic Echo Well-Intentioned Extremist Danny Peary Cult Movies List Ship Tease Serious Business Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Jerk Jock The Mole timeperiod Anachronic Order Horror Films Bloodless Carnage 20 Minutes into the Future Sports Stories Mugging the Monster Neck Snap Made of Iron Evil Brit Reckless Gun Usage Dark Reprise Epic Fail Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Plucky Comic Relief Sequel Escalation Villain Opening Scene Aluminum Christmas Trees The Great Depression Damsel in Distress A Father to His Men French Films '80s Hair Soundtrack Dissonance Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Genre Throwback Badass Boast Beauty Is Never Tarnished Sealed Evil in a Can I Have Your Wife The Dog Bites Back Fish out of Water Man on Fire The Cameo Hero Antagonist Friend to All Children From Bad to Worse Crazy-Prepared Broken Pedestal Manic Pixie Dream Girl Male Frontal Nudity Big Eater Word of God Does Not Like Shoes Face Death with Dignity Blackmail Berserk Button The Stoner Mystery and Detective Films Dirty Old Man Better to Die than Be Killed Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Retcon Undying Loyalty Not What It Looks Like It Can Think The Quiet One He Knows Too Much Frame-Up Foregone Conclusion Silent Movie Gender Flip Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Distracted by the Sexy Instant Death Bullet Rule of Symbolism Monumental Damage Shoot the Shaggy Dog The Lancer Put on a Bus Homage Cool Guns Nice Guy Sequel Hook Poor Communication Kills The Un-Reveal Adaptation Distillation Hair-Trigger Temper Facial Horror Slasher Smile From Nobody to Nightmare Suspiciously Similar Substitute Only in It for the Money Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Insistent Terminology Those Two Bad Guys Grey and Gray Morality Ms. Fanservice Missing Mom Belligerent Sexual Tension Big-Bad Ensemble Drugs Are Bad Victoria's Secret Compartment Evil Sounds Deep Men Are the Expendable Gender Bloody Hilarious Time Skip Artistic License – Biology Motor Mouth Russian Films German Films Leitmotif No Antagonist Asshole Victim Rated M for Manly Tap on the Head Bad Boss Plot Hole Age Lift Artistic License – Physics Daddy's Girl Genre Savvy What You Are in the Dark The Film of the Book Affably Evil Slasher Movie Heroic Sacrifice Unusually Uninteresting Sight Hypocritical Humor Big Damn Heroes Foil Humiliation Conga Five-Man Band Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Becoming the Mask My Beloved Smother Vacation Films Domestic Abuse She Cleans Up Nicely Fainting Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Didn't Think This Through Defrosting Ice Queen Worthy Opponent Calling the Old Man Out After the End Covers Always Lie Honor Before Reason Dark and Troubled Past Pay Evil unto Evil Eagleland Easily Forgiven The End... Or Is It? 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Fatal Family Photo An Arm and a Leg Recycled IN SPACE! All Girls Want Bad Boys The Stoic Intrepid Reporter Destination Defenestration A God Am I Expy Vitriolic Best Buds Deliberately Monochrome Ax-Crazy Gorn Kick the Son of a Bitch Implacable Man Black and Gray Morality Nice Hat In the Back Bowdlerise Love Triangle Creator Cameo Off with His Head! Smug Snake Chiaroscuro Betty and Veronica Hell Is That Noise Card-Carrying Villain Gold Digger I'm a Humanitarian Bond One-Liner Beta Couple Early-Bird Cameo Would Hurt a Child Enemy Mine Truth in Television Hidden Depths All Just a Dream Your Head A-Splode Ambiguously Gay Happily Married Silence Is Golden Works Set in World War II Car Fu Evil Is Petty Comically Missing the Point Smoking Is Cool Anti-Hero Flipping the Bird Fat Bastard Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Hate Sink Half the Man He Used to Be Historical In-Joke Madness Mantra The Voiceless Martial Arts Movie Translation Convention Here We Go Again! Adaptational Attractiveness Once More, with Clarity! Black Best Friend Wicked Cultured Laughing Mad Bullying a Dragon Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Book-Ends You Killed My Father Dressing as the Enemy Break the Haughty Evil Laugh Boom, Headshot! Take a Third Option Drowning My Sorrows Alpha Bitch Curb-Stomp Battle Jump Scare Extreme Doormat Film Noir Zombie Stories Camera Abuse Four-Temperament Ensemble Amusing Injuries Narrator Fate Worse than Death Our Vampires Are Different Downer Ending Hero of Another Story Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Big Brother Instinct Documentary Parental Neglect Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Credits Gag Genre Shift Empathic Environment Wham Line Index of Film Westerns Authority Equals Asskicking Shown Their Work Deadpan Snarker MacGuffin Chekhov's Gunman Evil Is Hammy Meaningful Echo Central Theme Bilingual Bonus Get Out! Dramatic Gun Cock The Casanova The Stinger The Lost Lenore Green-Eyed Monster All Men Are Perverts Affectionate Parody Soft Glass Despair Event Horizon Blood Knight Flashback Race Against the Clock Aside Glance Dogged Nice Guy Stalker with a Crush Taking You with Me Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Artistic License – Military Guile Hero Mooks A.I. Is a Crapshoot Adaptational Badass Light Is Not Good Dual Wielding Brainless Beauty Nothing Is Scarier Pre-Mortem One-Liner Fantasy Films Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Beard of Evil Totally Radical Suddenly SHOUTING! Funny Foreigner Establishing Character Moment Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Actually Pretty Funny "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Cloudcuckoolander And the Adventure Continues Country Matters Greater-Scope Villain Lampshade Hanging Advertised Extra Continuity Nod The Musical Good Is Not Nice As Himself Not Even Bothering with the Accent Bond Villain Stupidity Bottomless Magazines Disney Death Mundane Made Awesome Auto Erotica Rich Bitch Pimped-Out Dress He Who Fights Monsters Bury Your Gays Suspiciously Specific Denial Exact Words Villain Ball Very Loosely Based on a True Story The X of Y Stealth Pun Manipulative Bastard Antagonist Title Adaptation Dye-Job Evil-Detecting Dog Arch-Enemy Overprotective Dad Gratuitous English Dumb Blonde Laser-Guided Karma Your Cheating Heart How We Got Here Match Cut Armor-Piercing Question The Bully Brutal Honesty Our Zombies Are Different Author Avatar Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Vomit Discretion Shot Toplessness from the Back Evil vs. Evil The Ace Blatant Lies Freudian Excuse Sacrificial Lion Morality Pet The Ditz Brother–Sister Incest Lighter and Softer Room Full of Crazy Abusive Parents Fanservice Extra Informed Ability Real Life Writes the Plot The Dreaded Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Butt-Monkey Foreshadowing Bland-Name Product Not So Different Re-Cut Slap-Slap-Kiss Properly Paranoid Rasputinian Death Knife Nut Guns Akimbo Obviously Evil True Companions Improvised Weapon Take That! Woman Scorned Adaptation Name Change Eye Scream Pyrrhic Victory Deus ex Machina Everyone Has Standards Reality Ensues Author Appeal My Greatest Failure Pre-Asskicking One-Liner The Sociopath Unreliable Narrator Sci-Fi Horror Male Gaze Bavarian Fire Drill Mexican Standoff Every Car Is a Pinto You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Important Haircut Stepford Smiler Redemption Equals Death Bait-and-Switch Scare Chord The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite It Will Never Catch On Politically Incorrect Villain Canadian Movies Black Comedy Rape Amoral Attorney Fire-Forged Friends Earn Your Happy Ending Mood Whiplash Really Gets Around Music Stories Manly Tears Faking the Dead Darker and Edgier Daylight Horror Epic Movie Big "NO!" Vomit Indiscretion Shot Papa Wolf Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Animal Title Index Catch-Phrase Pragmatic Villainy Depraved Bisexual Interrupted Suicide Posthumous Character This Is Gonna Suck "Well Done, Son!" Guy Kill It with Fire Broken Aesop Fingore Pet the Dog Military and Warfare Films Gone Horribly Right "The Reason You Suck" Speech Punch-Clock Villain Action Survivor Evil Counterpart Villain with Good Publicity Darkest Hour Large Ham Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Shipper on Deck Rule of Funny Rousing Speech The Smurfette Principle Only Sane Man Beware the Nice Ones Non-Indicative Name Stealth Hi/Bye May–December Romance More Dakka Dramedy Australian Movies Red Right Hand The Place Science Fiction Films Did Not Get the Girl Broken Bird Show Within a Show What Happened to the Mouse? Body Horror Creative Closing Credits Real Life The Alcoholic Freeze-Frame Bonus Made of Explodium Double-Meaning Title Improbable Weapon User Animal Motifs Crucified Hero Shot Dwindling Party Historical Villain Upgrade Badass Normal Fantastic Racism Adaptation Expansion Big Bad Big Applesauce Fan Disservice Throwing Your Sword Always Works Ambiguous Ending Tranquil Fury Parental Substitute Cat Scare Logo Joke Pretty in Mink The Big Guy Canon Foreigner Spiritual Successor Brick Joke Accidental Murder Punny Name There Is No Kill Like Overkill Adaptational Heroism Femme Fatale Rewatch Bonus Dissonant Serenity Funny Background Event Sassy Black Woman Straight Gay Dutch Angle Loads and Loads of Characters The Mafia Super Strength Badass Longcoat Unspoken Plan Guarantee Demoted to Extra Blood from the Mouth Unwitting Instigator of Doom Sanity Slippage Historical-Domain Character Actor Allusion Say My Name Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Together in Death Deconstruction Dull Surprise Romantic False Lead Have a Gay Old Time My God, What Have I Done? Meaningful Background Event Bare Your Midriff Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Hong Kong Films Took a Level in Jerkass Killed Mid-Sentence Badass Bookworm Kill 'em All Big Bad Duumvirate Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Dying Moment of Awesome Too Dumb to Live Henpecked Husband Rape as Drama Spanner in the Works Black Dude Dies First Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Revenge Be Careful What You Wish For Big Fancy House Annoying Younger Sibling It's All About Me Adult Fear A Date with Rosie Palms Camp Gay Fatal Flaw Married to the Job Yandere Drill Sergeant Nasty Pretty Little Headshots No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Badass in a Nice Suit Death by Sex Heel–Face Turn Alas, Poor Villain Unresolved Sexual Tension Cool Old Lady Back from the Dead Dark Is Not Evil Chewing the Scenery No-Sell Peek-a-Boo Corpse Driven to Suicide Demonic Possession "Awesome McCool" Name Babies Ever After Never Found the Body No-Holds-Barred Beatdown World of Ham Ominous Latin Chanting Stock Footage Make It Look Like an Accident Roaring Rampage of Revenge Disproportionate Retribution Older Than They Look Almost Kiss The Remake Love at First Sight The Starscream Hollywood Darkness Taking the Bullet Mr. Exposition Final Girl Arc Words Crapsack World Death Glare Romantic Comedy Trailers Always Spoil Film Noir Index Diabolus ex Machina Wham Shot Hooker with a Heart of Gold Karma Houdini Call-Forward Mythology Gag The Chick Ambiguous Disorder Shut Up, Hannibal! Gainax Ending Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Red Shirt Mind Screw Not So Stoic Break the Cutie Eyepatch of Power Death Seeker Stylistic Suck Ungrateful Bastard The Cavalry Bunny-Ears Lawyer The Chessmaster Irony Anachronism Stew Fourth Date Marriage Corrupt Corporate Executive Dirty Coward What the Hell, Hero? Bar Brawl Jerk with a Heart of Gold Stuff Blowing Up The Ghost Twist Ending Christmas Movies Index Determinator aka: The Determinator La Résistance Shirtless Scene Police are Useless Disguised in Drag Conspicuous CG Malevolent Masked Men