Tropescilloscope: Bloodier and Gorier

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They Really Do Love Each Other Manic Pixie Dream Girl Mood Whiplash Pyrrhic Victory Very Loosely Based on a True Story Mr. Exposition The Atoner Lighter and Softer Heterosexual Life-Partners Expository Hairstyle Change Twist Ending Fanservice Extra Alliterative Name Villain Song Fatal Family Photo Happily Married Noodle Incident Fatal Flaw Kids Are Cruel Deal with the Devil Offscreen Teleportation Those Two Guys Rule of Cool Bond One-Liner Mugging the Monster Country Matters Together in Death Stealth Pun One-Man Army Married to the Job Dissonant Serenity Creepy Child One-Word Title No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Cloudcuckoolander Imagine Spot Parental Abandonment Anyone Can Die Pay Evil unto Evil Closed Circle Precision F-Strike Gory Discretion Shot Thriller Suspiciously Specific Denial Corpsing Determinator Adaptation Dye-Job Revenge Dying Moment of Awesome Hope Spot Fake Shemp Shower Scene Back from the Dead Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Sealed Evil in a Can Visual Pun Final Girl Put on a Bus Animal Title Index Sir Swears-a-Lot Call-Forward Made of Explodium Documentary Blood from the Mouth Scare Chord Setting Update Science Fiction Films Riddle for the Ages My Beloved Smother As Long as It Sounds Foreign Early-Bird Cameo Action Prologue Foreshadowing Black and Gray Morality Double Entendre Anachronism Stew Daddy's Girl Dirty Coward All for Nothing Punch-Clock Villain Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Pretty in Mink Obviously Evil Overly Long Gag Villain Ball Badass Grandpa Bilingual Bonus The '90s Peek-a-Boo Corpse Only Known by Their Nickname Beware the Nice Ones Superhero Product Placement Bi the Way Award-Bait Song Stylistic Suck Love at First Sight It's All About Me Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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