Tropescilloscope: Breaking the Fourth Wall

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Is a Crapshoot Bilingual Bonus Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Berserk Button The '60s Genre Throwback Gorn Crucified Hero Shot Protagonist Title Blackmail Sanity Slippage Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Madness Mantra Television Movie Index Serial Killer Fate Worse than Death Country Matters Hidden Depths MacGuffin Badass Boast Gainax Ending Bowdlerise Bring My Brown Pants Annoying Younger Sibling Alpha Bitch Maybe Ever After Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor No Celebrities Were Harmed You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Stealth Pun Love at First Sight Dull Surprise Adaptation Distillation Broken Bird Department of Redundancy Department Big Eater Cowboy Cop Affectionate Parody Papa Wolf Car Fu Stuff Blowing Up Last-Name Basis Easily Forgiven Sequel Escalation Aww, Look! 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Mad Scientist Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun The '90s Leave the Camera Running Smug Snake Tranquil Fury Costume Porn The Ace You Have Failed Me Stylistic Suck Downer Ending Everyone Has Standards Random Events Plot Evil Plan Bound and Gagged Paper-Thin Disguise Ax-Crazy Broken Pedestal Irony Silence Is Golden All Just a Dream Disney Death Woman Scorned Plucky Comic Relief Beware the Nice Ones Extreme Doormat Soft Glass Cassandra Truth Disney Villain Death Cool Guns Contrived Coincidence The X of Y Dies Wide Open The Reveal Slasher Smile Real Life Mythology Gag '80s Hair Woman in White Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Kids Are Cruel Casting Gag Red Right Hand Adaptation Dye-Job Police Brutality Romantic False Lead Sealed Evil in a Can Stealth Hi/Bye Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Determinator aka: The Determinator Ungrateful Bastard Only Known by Their Nickname Revenge Does Not Like Shoes Death by Adaptation My Greatest Failure Neck Lift Loads and Loads of Characters Evil Is Hammy Freudian Excuse World of Ham Dramedy Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Ominous Latin Chanting Evil-Detecting Dog Big Bad Cruel and Unusual Death Based on a True Story Very Loosely Based on a True Story Same Language Dub Apocalypse How Gilligan Cut Even Evil Has Loved Ones Suspiciously Similar Substitute Monumental Damage The Stoic Daddy's Girl May–December Romance Deliberately Monochrome Redshirt Army Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Darkest Hour Scenery Gorn Greater-Scope Villain Action Girl Double-Meaning Title Improvised Weapon Creepy Child Wrong Genre Savvy Early-Bird Cameo Anti-Villain Precision F-Strike In Name Only Badass Bookworm The '70s Adaptation Expansion Adaptational Attractiveness The Lancer Police are Useless Bad "Bad Acting" Big-Bad Ensemble Hero of Another Story What Happened to the Mouse? 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Bury Your Gays Not So Above It All Fake Shemp Small Name, Big Ego Reasonable Authority Figure In the Back The End... Or Is It? Suddenly SHOUTING! Only One Name Guns Akimbo Celebrity Paradox Fat Bastard She's Got Legs The Ghost The Power of Love Whole Plot Reference Motor Mouth Danny Peary Cult Movies List Attempted Rape Hooker with a Heart of Gold Dogged Nice Guy Sassy Black Woman Mr. Fanservice Jerk Jock Flipping the Bird As Himself Groin Attack Bi the Way Sacrificial Lion Take a Third Option Comically Missing the Point Belligerent Sexual Tension Plot Hole Red Shirt The Oner Russian Films Every Car Is a Pinto Well-Intentioned Extremist Manly Tears I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Creative Closing Credits Vomit Discretion Shot O.O.C. Is Serious Business Reality Has No Subtitles Peek-a-Boo Corpse Science Fiction Films Babies Ever After Cool Old Guy Slasher Movie Cold-Blooded Torture Decoy Protagonist Taking You with Me Film Series Line-of-Sight Name "The Reason You Suck" Speech Dirty Cop Homage The Bad Guy Wins Sinister Minister Translation Convention Guile Hero Make It Look Like an Accident Left the Background Music On Author Avatar Our Zombies Are Different Twist Ending Product Placement How We Got Here Ascended Extra Married to the Job Not What It Looks Like Heterosexual Life-Partners Horror Films Aside Glance Big Brother Instinct The Remake There Is No Kill Like Overkill Took a Level in Badass Exact Words I Have Your Wife Historical-Domain Character Smoking Is Cool Silent Movie Failed a Spot Check Off-into-the-Distance Ending Unspoken Plan Guarantee Spiteful Spit Destination Defenestration Final Girl Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Black Comedy Rape For the Evulz Getting Crap Past the Radar Villain Protagonist Knife Nut Sadistic Choice Accidental Murder Music Stories Naked People Are Funny Spiritual Successor The Film of the Book Interrupted Suicide B-Movie Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Sports Stories Obviously Evil Toplessness from the Back Show Within a Show Early Installment Weirdness Adaptational Badass Mama Bear Idiot Ball Rule of Symbolism Dramatic Irony Offscreen Moment of Awesome Rich Bitch My God, What Have I Done? Amoral Attorney Unreliable Narrator Time Skip Scary Black Man A Date with Rosie Palms Accidental Misnaming Those Wacky Nazis Red Eyes, Take Warning All Men Are Perverts The Stinger Coming-of-Age Story Catch-Phrase Names to Run Away from Really Fast Fingore Demoted to Extra Epic Movie Fanservice Extra Meaningful Background Event Mighty Whitey Genre Shift Ambiguous Ending Canon Foreigner Chekhov's Gunman Public Domain Feature Films Deal with the Devil Not So Stoic After the End Domestic Abuse French Films Happily Married Drives Like Crazy Together in Death Beta Couple Evil Sounds Deep All There in the Script Unwitting Instigator of Doom Hero Antagonist I'm a Humanitarian Vitriolic Best Buds One-Man Army Vampire Fiction Heroes Want Redheads Daylight Horror Crazy-Prepared Wounded Gazelle Gambit Chiaroscuro Undying Loyalty Advertised Extra Soundtrack Dissonance Love Triangle Bolivian Army Ending Historical Villain Upgrade Fatal Flaw He Who Fights Monsters Lampshade Hanging Rule of Funny Enemy Mine Action Prologue Historical In-Joke Cool Shades Villain Opening Scene Men Are the Expendable Gender Bond One-Liner Shipper on Deck Eiffel Tower Effect Shut Up, Hannibal! It Will Never Catch On Heel–Face Turn Henpecked Husband Artistic License – Physics No Name Given Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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The Chessmaster Pretty Little Headshots Anachronism Stew Gender Flip Captain Ersatz Shout-Out Blatant Lies Crazy Jealous Guy Dumb Blonde Superhero Redemption Equals Death Punch-Clock Villain Took a Level in Jerkass Hope Spot The Chick Batman Gambit Manchild Framing Device Black Dude Dies First The Cameo Non-Indicative Name Cool Old Lady Brainless Beauty Alliterative Name Bittersweet Ending Gory Discretion Shot Covers Always Lie Big Applesauce Biopic The Mafia Bare Your Midriff Face–Heel Turn Man on Fire War Is Hell And the Adventure Continues Adaptation Name Change Animated Credits Opening Humiliation Conga Evil Brit "Awesome McCool" Name The Smurfette Principle Damsel in Distress Leaning on the Fourth Wall Darker and Edgier Dropped a Bridge on Him Match Cut Sole Survivor Curb-Stomp Battle Laughing Mad Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Disappeared Dad Dirty Coward Brother–Sister Incest Intergenerational Friendship No Antagonist Retirony Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Artistic License – Military Artistic License – Geography Trailers Always Spoil Race Against the Clock Get Out! 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