Tropescilloscope: Breaking the Fourth Wall

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Our Vampires Are Different Offscreen Moment of Awesome Fanservice Extra Grievous Bottley Harm The Alcoholic Italian Films Stalker with a Crush Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil folderlabel Hollywood Darkness Stuff Blowing Up Papa Wolf Villain Protagonist Cold-Blooded Torture Mama Bear Knight Templar Science Fiction Films Fingore Camera Abuse Guile Hero Butt-Monkey Undying Loyalty Not Using the "Z" Word Plot Hole Action Survivor Bloodier and Gorier Bilingual Bonus An Arm and a Leg Chekhov's Skill Ripped from the Headlines Madness Mantra 20 Minutes into the Future Cloudcuckoolander Destination Defenestration Man on Fire Suspiciously Specific Denial Cool Old Lady The Alleged Car Australian Movies Stylistic Suck Scenery Porn Male Frontal Nudity Twist Ending "Awesome McCool" Name Captain Obvious British Films Fish out of Water Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! She Cleans Up Nicely War Is Hell Music Stories Blackmail Not Quite Dead Naked People Are Funny Made of Explodium Dirty Cop Serious Business Cool Old Guy Did Not Get the Girl Moment Killer Off-into-the-Distance Ending Politically Incorrect Villain Idiot Ball Deliberate Values Dissonance Creepy Child Fire-Forged Friends The Dragon Your Head A-Splode She's Got Legs Downer Ending Revenge Closed Circle Unreliable Narrator No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Wham Shot The '60s Naïve Newcomer Together in Death Major Injury Underreaction Documentary Composite Character Film Series Body Horror Rule of Symbolism Your Cheating Heart One-Word Title Genre Savvy Double-Meaning Title Manchild Get Out! Crazy Jealous Guy Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? All Girls Want Bad Boys Mr. Fanservice Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Needs Wiki Magic Love Here We Go Again! Spell My Name with an "S" Red Herring Henpecked Husband Epic Movie All for Nothing Adaptation Distillation Humans Are Bastards Fatal Flaw It Can Think Rated M for Manly Every Car Is a Pinto Grey and Gray Morality World of Ham He Who Fights Monsters Lighter and Softer Victoria's Secret Compartment Horror Comedy The Hero Dies Lock and Load Montage Badass in a Nice Suit Redemption Equals Death One Steve Limit Affectionate Parody As Long as It Sounds Foreign Heel Realization Author Avatar Retcon Guns Akimbo Mexican Standoff Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Big Brother Instinct Never Trust a Trailer Superhero Exactly What It Says on the Tin Call-Back Visual Pun Jerk with a Heart of Gold Throwing Your Sword Always Works Catapult Nightmare Animal Motifs You Have Outlived Your Usefulness The '80s Riddle for the Ages Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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The Lost Lenore Biopic Hypocritical Humor Bar Brawl Adults Are Useless Action Girl The Sociopath Conspicuous CG Jump Scare Flipping the Bird Wicked Cultured Kids Are Cruel Word of God Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Evil Counterpart The Smurfette Principle Enemy Mine Exact Words Wretched Hive Crucified Hero Shot Getting Crap Past the Radar Determinator aka: The Determinator Rule of Funny Gold Digger Trailers Always Spoil Dark Reprise Running Gag Adapted Out Dwindling Party The Great Depression Product Placement Pay Evil unto Evil Epic Fail Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Dramatic Irony Malevolent Masked Men Historical Hero Upgrade Never My Fault Corrupt Corporate Executive The Hero Ominous Latin Chanting Fainting Insistent Terminology Mighty Whitey O.O.C. Is Serious Business As the Good Book Says... The Un-Reveal In the Back Off with His Head! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Be Careful What You Wish For Vacation Films Race Against the Clock Paper-Thin Disguise Affably Evil Pyrrhic Victory And I Must Scream Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Fiery Redhead Ambiguous Disorder The Casanova Action Prologue Jerkass Has a Point The Starscream Bullying a Dragon Cruel and Unusual Death Artistic License – History Sealed Evil in a Can Implacable Man Put on a Bus Poor Communication Kills Names to Run Away from Really Fast Dirty Coward Drugs Are Bad French Films Unwitting Instigator of Doom Big Fancy House Love at First Sight The Ace Redshirt Army Drowning My Sorrows Training Montage Non-Indicative Name Outrun the Fireball Artistic License – Law BFG What You Are in the Dark Artistic License – Physics Pretty in Mink Overprotective Dad Gone Horribly Right Depraved Bisexual Martial Arts Movie Christmas Movies Index Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Protagonist Title Gilligan Cut Hope Spot timeperiod Hooker with a Heart of Gold Dies Wide Open Took a Level in Jerkass Evil Is Hammy Retired Badass Evil-Detecting Dog Card-Carrying Villain German Films Awesome, but Impractical Death Glare I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Punch-Clock Villain Posthumous Character Demoted to Extra Real Life Adaptational Badass Market-Based Title Cool Car Evil vs. Evil Dying Moment of Awesome Apocalypse How It's Personal Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Worthy Opponent Mind Screw Adaptational Heroism Beware the Nice Ones Bloody Hilarious Anachronic Order Not So Above It All Karma Houdini Shoot the Shaggy Dog Gainax Ending And the Adventure Continues Deconstruction Half the Man He Used to Be Heterosexual Life-Partners Bland-Name Product Better to Die than Be Killed For the Evulz Laughing Mad Establishing Character Moment The Lancer Hero Antagonist Men Are the Expendable Gender Jitter Cam Foregone Conclusion Ambiguously Gay Red Right Hand Damsel in Distress Green-Eyed Monster Works Set in World War II Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Meaningful Echo My Beloved Smother Not So Different Canon Foreigner "Well Done, Son!" Guy Dull Surprise Reality Is Unrealistic Up to Eleven Woman Scorned Arranged Marriage Animated Credits Opening Beta Couple Curb-Stomp Battle Pimped-Out Dress Accidental Murder There Is No Kill Like Overkill Death by Irony Heroic Sacrifice Smug Snake More Dakka Totally Radical Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Big-Bad Ensemble Bloodless Carnage Diabolus ex Machina Break the Haughty Badass Normal Take That! Spared by the Adaptation Last-Name Basis NO INDOOR VOICE Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Reasonable Authority Figure Mood Whiplash Stealth Hi/Bye Cat Fight Mr. Exposition No-Holds-Barred Beatdown From Bad to Worse The Dog Bites Back Intergenerational Friendship Cassandra Truth Would Hit a Girl Overly Long Gag Vampire Fiction Credits Gag Danny Peary Cult Movies List Male Gaze "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue It's All About Me Creative Closing Credits Ship Tease Shirtless Scene Captain Ersatz Gorn Even Evil Has Loved Ones Improbable Aiming Skills Dressing as the Enemy Badass Boast Does Not Like Shoes Those Two Guys Beard of Evil Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Evil Cannot Comprehend Good The Mole Villain with Good Publicity Pet the Dog Hong Kong Films Badass Grandpa Hero of Another Story Mercy Kill The X of Y My God, What Have I Done? Deus ex Machina Star-Crossed Lovers May–December Romance Cain and Abel Mistaken for Gay Alliterative Name N-Word Privileges Dark and Troubled Past The Smart Guy Children Are Innocent Spiritual Successor Genre Throwback Translation Convention Manipulative Bastard Big Bad Duumvirate Blood from the Mouth Eldritch Abomination Bury Your Gays Whole Plot Reference Parental Abandonment Interrupted Suicide Rape as Drama Anti-Villain The Dreaded Skewed Priorities Silent Movie Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Eiffel Tower Effect Eyepatch of Power Dual Wielding Freudian Excuse Bald of Evil Plucky Comic Relief Villainous Breakdown Scenery Gorn Only a Flesh Wound Pre-Mortem One-Liner The End... Or Is It? No Celebrities Were Harmed '80s Hair Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Manic Pixie Dream Girl Slasher Movie Framing Device Yandere Award-Bait Song Disproportionate Retribution Coming-of-Age Story Evil Is Petty Evil Sounds Deep Amusing Injuries Faux Affably Evil Toplessness from the Back Antagonist Title Brutal Honesty Bond Villain Stupidity The '90s Insult Backfire Film Noir Index The Musical Foreshadowing Self-Deprecation My Greatest Failure Dutch Angle Stepford Smiler Actually Pretty Funny Shell-Shocked Veteran Book-Ends Mundane Made Awesome Defrosting Ice Queen Time Skip Chewing the Scenery Dark Is Not Evil Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Chiaroscuro Attempted Rape The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Blood Knight Fat Bastard Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Daylight Horror Blatant Lies Villain Ball As Himself Handicapped Badass Eagleland Face Death with Dignity Calling the Old Man Out Adaptational Attractiveness Those Wacky Nazis Suspiciously Similar Substitute Sadistic Choice Leaning on the Fourth Wall Big Bad Deliberately Monochrome The Load MacGuffin No OSHA Compliance Soundtrack Dissonance Dropped a Bridge on Him Earn Your Happy Ending Match Cut Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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