Tropescilloscope: Breaking the Fourth Wall

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Is a Crapshoot Immune to Bullets There Is No Kill Like Overkill Daddy's Girl Stepford Smiler Unusually Uninteresting Sight Logo Joke Anachronic Order An Aesop Eldritch Abomination Bullying a Dragon A Date with Rosie Palms Disappeared Dad Determinator Silence Is Golden Coming-of-Age Story Homage Award-Bait Song Animal Title Index Fire-Forged Friends Mr. Fanservice Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Idiot Ball Destination Defenestration Ax-Crazy N-Word Privileges Make It Look Like an Accident Match Cut Market-Based Title Fiery Redhead Whole Plot Reference Death by Sex Laser-Guided Karma A God Am I Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Alliterative Name "Shaggy Dog" Story Evil Laugh Rich Bitch Mama Bear Unspoken Plan Guarantee Arc Words Anti-Villain Sequel Escalation Adaptational Heroism Television Movie Index Armor-Piercing Question Skewed Priorities Italian Films Paper-Thin Disguise Foreshadowing It Will Never Catch On Ambiguous Disorder Improbable Aiming Skills Those Two Guys Silent Movie Break the Haughty NO INDOOR VOICE Broken Pedestal Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Evil Plan Manchild All Men Are Perverts Funny Background Event Artistic License – Military Outrun the Fireball My Greatest Failure Only a Flesh Wound Captain Ersatz Twist Ending Taking the Bullet Tap on the Head "Well Done, Son!" 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