Tropescilloscope: Bolivian Army Ending
An unresolved cliffhanger with the characters facing impossible odds. (read more at tvtropes.org)
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Half the Man He Used to Be
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It Will Never Catch On
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Black Dude Dies First
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The Hero Dies
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Have a Gay Old Time
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My Greatest Failure
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Death by Adaptation
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Evil Is Petty
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What You Are in the Dark
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Beauty Is Never Tarnished
The Reveal
Badass Grandpa
Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Slashed Throat
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Pay Evil unto Evil
You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!
I'm a Humanitarian
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No Celebrities Were Harmed
Made of Explodium
Eureka Moment
Line-of-Sight Name
The X of Y
Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Defiant to the End
Cat Fight
Get Out!
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Does This Remind You of Anything?
Names to Run Away from Really Fast
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
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Cloudcuckoolander
Obviously Evil
Drugs Are Bad
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Those Wacky Nazis
Children Are Innocent
Canon Foreigner
Crapsack World
Death by Irony
Book-Ends
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Enemy Mine
Asshole Victim
Historical In-Joke
Dirty Coward
You Killed My Father
Would Hurt a Child
MacGuffin
The Big Guy
No OSHA Compliance
Adaptation Expansion
Up to Eleven
Pragmatic Villainy
"Awesome McCool" Name
Video Credits
Exact Words
Market-Based Title
Friend to All Children
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Offscreen Moment of Awesome
She Cleans Up Nicely
The Cavalry
Nothing Is Scarier
Deconstruction
Mundane Made Awesome
Romantic False Lead
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Love at First Sight
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Mighty Whitey
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Fingore
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Action Girl
Older Than They Look
Break the Cutie
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Kill It with Fire
Neck Snap
And the Adventure Continues
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Arc Words
All Men Are Perverts
Ungrateful Bastard
Cluster F-Bomb
You Have Failed Me
The Alleged Car
Rich Bitch
Artistic License Geography
The Atoner
Novelization
Rule of Symbolism
My Beloved Smother
Handicapped Badass
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Villain Opening Scene
The Remake
Final Girl
Leave the Camera Running
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Improbable Infant Survival
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Mexican Standoff
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Extremely Short Timespan
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The Voiceless
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Better to Die than Be Killed
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Award-Bait Song
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Amusing Injuries
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Aluminum Christmas Trees
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Curse Cut Short
As Himself
Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Drowning My Sorrows
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Darkest Hour
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Casting Gag
How We Got Here
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Moment Killer
Spared by the Adaptation
Armor-Piercing Question
Contrived Coincidence
20 Minutes into the Future
Refuge in Audacity
Danny Peary Cult Movies List
Actually Pretty Funny
Chewing the Scenery
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Black Comedy Rape
Driven to Suicide
Taking the Bullet
Fainting
Annoying Younger Sibling
Heroic BSoD
Race Against the Clock
Accidental Misnaming
Eyepatch of Power
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Chase Scene
Make It Look Like an Accident
Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
Failed a Spot Check
Betty and Veronica
Back from the Dead
Flipping the Bird
Badass Boast
Martial Arts Movie
Based on a True Story
Antagonist Title
Those Two Guys
Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Leitmotif
The Ditz
Dressing as the Enemy
Artistic License Military
One-Word Title
Knife Nut
The Load
BFG
Comically Missing the Point
Major Injury Underreaction
This Is Gonna Suck
Peek-a-Boo Corpse
Awesome, but Impractical
Beard of Evil
Token Minority
Death Seeker
Jump Scare
Hate Sink
Serial Killer
Lampshade Hanging
World of Ham
Stylistic Suck
Paper-Thin Disguise
Our Zombies Are Different
Fanservice Extra
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice