Tropescilloscope: Breaking the Fourth Wall

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Is Serious Business Australian Movies The Stoic Even Evil Has Loved Ones Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Rape as Drama The Place The '50s Did Not Get the Girl Kids Are Cruel Fate Worse than Death Tap on the Head Cloudcuckoolander Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Curse Cut Short Celebrity Paradox Fire-Forged Friends Happily Married Early Installment Weirdness Aluminum Christmas Trees Blatant Lies "Awesome McCool" Name Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Recycled IN SPACE! Adaptational Badass Those Two Guys Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Jerk Jock Too Dumb to Live Spiritual Successor Does This Remind You of Anything? Anachronic Order No Ending Film Noir Index Only a Flesh Wound You Have Failed Me Deliberate Values Dissonance Card-Carrying Villain Science Fiction Films Corpsing Death by Irony Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Arch-Enemy Soundtrack Dissonance Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Evil Is Petty Adaptation Expansion Truth in Television Evil Laugh Works Set in World War II The Smurfette Principle Epic Fail Adults Are Useless Revenge Badass in a Nice Suit The '80s Dark Is Not Evil No-Holds-Barred Beatdown One Steve Limit Not So Above It All In Medias Res Evil Sounds Deep Star-Crossed Lovers Hong Kong Films Red Eyes, Take Warning Fanservice Brick Joke Canon Foreigner Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Gainax Ending Translation Convention The Musical Brother–Sister Incest Badass Longcoat Gory Discretion Shot The Cameo Dual Wielding Corrupt Corporate Executive Gold Digger Unwitting Instigator of Doom Nothing Is Scarier Lighter and Softer The '90s The Great Depression Poor Communication Kills Our Zombies Are Different Christmas Movies Index Cruel and Unusual Death Twist Ending Would Hurt a Child Vomit Indiscretion Shot Despair Event Horizon Beware the Nice Ones Once More, with Clarity! 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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Mooks Fantasy Films Skewed Priorities Unusual Euphemism Imagine Spot Fatal Flaw Meaningful Echo Body Horror Anguished Declaration of Love Well-Intentioned Extremist Artistic License – Geography Married to the Job Villain Ball Dumb Blonde The Mole Unusually Uninteresting Sight Anti-Villain Dirty Coward The Brute La Résistance Vomit Discretion Shot Artistic License – Gun Safety Deus ex Machina Dies Wide Open Reasonable Authority Figure Department of Redundancy Department Fake Shemp Destination Defenestration Chuck Cunningham Syndrome The Lost Lenore Damsel in Distress The Ghost Wretched Hive Storming the Castle Chase Scene Stock Footage 20 Minutes into the Future Knight Templar Jerkass Has a Point The Quiet One Lampshade Hanging Retired Badass Made of Iron Music Stories Affably Evil Broken Bird Credits Gag Laser-Guided Karma Missing Mom The Dragon Reality Ensues Serial Killer BFG Deadpan Snarker Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Dark and Troubled Past Apocalypse How Driven to Suicide Oh, Crap! 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Is a Crapshoot Creative Closing Credits In Name Only Romantic Comedy Asshole Victim Bond One-Liner Only Sane Man Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Stepford Smiler Military and Warfare Films Darkest Hour Bloody Hilarious Four-Temperament Ensemble Broken Aesop Parental Abandonment Shower Scene Wicked Cultured Heroic BSoD Guile Hero Flipping the Bird Meet Cute Informed Ability Artistic License – Law Good Is Not Nice Older Than They Look Only One Name No OSHA Compliance Disappeared Dad Bound and Gagged The Oner Random Events Plot Logo Joke Exactly What It Says on the Tin Evil vs. Evil Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies The Voiceless Token Minority Arranged Marriage Friend to All Children Anachronism Stew Advertised Extra Hair-Trigger Temper A Father to His Men Shell-Shocked Veteran Shipper on Deck Pragmatic Adaptation As You Know Vitriolic Best Buds Developing Doomed Characters Action Prologue Historical Villain Upgrade Novelization Bond Villain Stupidity Ungrateful Bastard B-Movie Real Life Writes the Plot Double-Meaning Title Papa Wolf Calling the Old Man Out The Big Guy Dramedy Depraved Bisexual Your Head A-Splode Offscreen Teleportation From Bad to Worse Together in Death Disguised in Drag Cold-Blooded Torture Frame-Up Hooker with a Heart of Gold Unresolved Sexual Tension Straight Gay Bad "Bad Acting" The Lancer Alpha Bitch Age Lift Disney Death Chekhov's Gun Sci-Fi Horror Punny Name Mexican Standoff Combat Pragmatist Bolivian Army Ending Shoot the Shaggy Dog Homage Never Found the Body Meaningful Name Meaningful Background Event Decoy Protagonist Creator Cameo Bare Your Midriff Chekhov's Skill Punctuated! 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Antagonist Title Villain Protagonist Book-Ends Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Punch-Clock Villain Actor Allusion Video Credits Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Manipulative Bastard Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Stalker with a Crush Ambiguous Disorder Alliterative Name Genre Savvy Wounded Gazelle Gambit Framing Device Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Anyone Can Die Villainous Breakdown Dying Moment of Awesome Motor Mouth Instant Death Bullet Dramatic Irony Broken Pedestal Eiffel Tower Effect Does Not Like Shoes Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Police are Useless More Dakka Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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