Tropescilloscope: Broken Bird

Troubled, but Cute person (often female) with a Dark and Troubled Past. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Epilogue Deus ex Machina Rule of Cool Chase Scene Beta Couple Cold-Blooded Torture Accidental Misnaming As Long as It Sounds Foreign Race Against the Clock A Father to His Men She's Got Legs Mr. Exposition Red Right Hand Celebrity Paradox Slap-Slap-Kiss Suspiciously Similar Substitute Large Ham Bring My Brown Pants Outrun the Fireball Stylistic Suck Recycled IN SPACE! Be Careful What You Wish For Not Using the "Z" Word Suspiciously Specific Denial Skewed Priorities It Can Think Only Sane Man The Alcoholic Mood Whiplash Vomit Indiscretion Shot Children Are Innocent Never Found the Body Breaking the Fourth Wall You Killed My Father Monumental Damage Determinator aka: The Determinator Kick the Son of a Bitch Public Domain Feature Films Credits Gag An Arm and a Leg Black Best Friend Fanservice Slasher Smile Kill 'em All Storming the Castle Moment Killer Suddenly SHOUTING! Match Cut Sir Swears-a-Lot Leitmotif Mugging the Monster Mama Bear Overly Long Gag Based on a True Story Badass Grandpa Aside Glance Bond One-Liner Adaptation Distillation Bowdlerise Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Overprotective Dad Jitter Cam Frame-Up Market-Based Title Killed Mid-Sentence Beard of Evil Diabolus ex Machina Manipulative Bastard Damsel in Distress Anyone Can Die Death Glare Well-Intentioned Extremist Actor Allusion Stealth Hi/Bye Disguised in Drag The X of Y Bunny-Ears Lawyer What the Hell, Hero? For the Evulz Kill It with Fire Call-Back Shown Their Work I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Dogged Nice Guy Didn't Think This Through The Dog Bites Back Not What It Looks Like Sanity Slippage "Awesome McCool" Name Jerkass Shower Scene Dark Is Not Evil Red Eyes, Take Warning Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Scare Chord Crucified Hero Shot Chewing the Scenery Card-Carrying Villain World of Ham Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Artistic License – History Broken Pedestal Artistic License – Geography Up to Eleven Off with His Head! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Blatant Lies In Medias Res Betty and Veronica Random Events Plot All Just a Dream Extreme Doormat Superhero Eagleland Does Not Like Shoes Took a Level in Jerkass Call-Forward No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Film Noir Index Annoying Younger Sibling Bar Brawl Slasher Movie Back from the Dead Plot Hole All There in the Manual Coming-of-Age Story Friend to All Children Red Herring Biopic After the End Dual Wielding Male Gaze Karma Houdini Wicked Cultured Epic Fail Casting Gag Villain Protagonist Offscreen Moment of Awesome Dies Wide Open Grey and Gray Morality Trailers Always Spoil Horror Comedy Dissonant Serenity Retcon Easily Forgiven Hero Antagonist Chiaroscuro Action Survivor Never My Fault Only One Name Made of Explodium Hypocritical Humor Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Off-into-the-Distance Ending Abhorrent Admirer Ripped from the Headlines Hong Kong Films Cool Old Lady Woman in White Reality Is Unrealistic Running Gag Crazy Jealous Guy Villainous Breakdown Victoria's Secret Compartment Stalker with a Crush Downer Ending Death Seeker No Name Given Gory Discretion Shot The Cavalry Anguished Declaration of Love Amusing Injuries Black Comedy Dumb Blonde Cruel and Unusual Death Establishing Character Moment Psychological Thriller The Bully Wham Shot Hell Is That Noise From Bad to Worse Artistic License – Military The Quiet One Almost Kiss Wrong Genre Savvy The Atoner Exactly What It Says on the Tin Not So Different Love Triangle Award-Bait Song Brother–Sister Incest 20 Minutes into the Future Lock and Load Montage Adaptational Villainy Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Pet the Dog Spiteful Spit Empathic Environment One-Word Title Eye Scream Retirony Bad "Bad Acting" Soundtrack Dissonance Nothing Is Scarier Face Death with Dignity Ungrateful Bastard Loophole Abuse Fish out of Water Fiery Redhead Mooks Japanese Films Those Wacky Nazis All Girls Want Bad Boys No Ending Aluminum Christmas Trees British Films Paper-Thin Disguise Immune to Bullets Mr. Fanservice Genre Savvy Mistaken for Gay Greater-Scope Villain Hollywood Law Unusually Uninteresting Sight The Sociopath Loads and Loads of Characters Failed a Spot Check Translation Convention No OSHA Compliance Bilingual Bonus Red Shirt All Men Are Perverts Product Placement Say My Name Documentary Knife Nut Drowning My Sorrows Foregone Conclusion Hero of Another Story Every Car Is a Pinto Show Within a Show Mystery and Detective Films Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Interrupted Suicide Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Bury Your Gays Historical In-Joke Pragmatic Adaptation Never Trust a Trailer Bound and Gagged Anti-Villain Adaptational Heroism Setting Update Only a Flesh Wound Bloodier and Gorier BFG Cool Car Jump Scare Not Even Bothering with the Accent Laughing Mad Decoy Protagonist Country Matters Once More, with Clarity! Ax-Crazy Word of God Amoral Attorney Have a Gay Old Time Heel Realization Body Horror Action Girl Ambiguous Disorder Animated Credits Opening Awesome, but Impractical Animal Title Index Guns Akimbo Tranquil Fury Left the Background Music On Twist Ending And the Adventure Continues Meaningful Name Broken Bird Attempted Rape Face–Heel Turn Humans Are Bastards Despair Event Horizon He Who Fights Monsters Villain Song Here We Go Again! Cool Old Guy Laser-Guided Karma Boom, Headshot! The Ditz Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Big Applesauce All There in the Script Disproportionate Retribution Token Minority Curse Cut Short Gorn Spell My Name with an "S" I'm a Humanitarian Fate Worse than Death Driven to Suicide Alas, Poor Villain Brutal Honesty Motor Mouth Very Loosely Based on a True Story Nice Guy Our Zombies Are Different Smug Snake And Starring Author Avatar Dropped a Bridge on Him Unspoken Plan Guarantee Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Fatal Flaw Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Book-Ends Same Language Dub Novelization Vampire Fiction Even Evil Has Standards Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Evil vs. Evil Bloody Hilarious Men Are the Expendable Gender Dirty Coward Crapsack World Sinister Minister Death by Adaptation Unwitting Instigator of Doom Evil-Detecting Dog Bavarian Fire Drill Domestic Abuse The Smart Guy No Celebrities Were Harmed Italian Films Brick Joke In the Back Line-of-Sight Name Mighty Whitey Stealth Pun Faking the Dead This Is Gonna Suck Break the Cutie Lampshade Hanging Epic Movie Action Prologue Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking A God Am I Make It Look Like an Accident Took a Level in Badass Jerkass Has a Point Taking You with Me Neck Snap She Cleans Up Nicely Evil Sounds Deep Hair-Trigger Temper Index of Film Westerns Genre Shift Russian Films Madness Mantra Double Entendre The Brute Cool Shades From Nobody to Nightmare Dirty Old Man The Alleged Car Mad Scientist Gainax Ending The Lancer Villain Opening Scene Fire-Forged Friends Arc Words O.O.C. Is Serious Business Big-Bad Ensemble The Reveal Manchild Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Adaptational Badass The Chessmaster Redemption Equals Death Depraved Bisexual N-Word Privileges "The Reason You Suck" Speech Evil Is Hammy Deliberate Values Dissonance I Need a Freaking Drink Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass What Happened to the Mouse? The Starscream Historical Villain Upgrade Meaningful Echo Manic Pixie Dream Girl Femme Fatale Romantic Comedy Eyepatch of Power Hate Sink Protagonist Title He Knows Too Much Abusive Parents Batman Gambit Daylight Horror Implacable Man Arch-Enemy Cain and Abel Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Plucky Comic Relief Pimped-Out Dress Neck Lift As the Good Book Says... Insistent Terminology Happily Married Due to the Dead Hollywood Darkness "Well Done, Son!" 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Horror Films Intrepid Reporter Mercy Kill True Companions Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies The Great Depression Fatal Family Photo Shipper on Deck Rated M for Manly Contrived Coincidence Obstructive Bureaucrat Small Name, Big Ego Bi the Way Facial Horror Straight Gay Double-Meaning Title Stock Footage Fainting Expository Hairstyle Change Becoming the Mask Anachronism Stew The Musical Dramedy Not So Above It All Morality Pet Cat Fight The '70s Actually Pretty Funny Names to Run Away from Really Fast Bolivian Army Ending Spanner in the Works Final Girl Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Creator Cameo The Hero Big Damn Heroes Bald of Evil Pre-Mortem One-Liner Deconstruction Really Gets Around Psychopathic Manchild Super Strength Extremely Short Timespan Tempting Fate Roaring Rampage of Revenge Captain Obvious Spiritual Successor Big Fancy House Gilligan Cut Heroic Sacrifice The Un-Reveal German Films Five-Man Band Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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