Tropescilloscope: Butt-Monkey

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Red Herring Continuity Nod Improvised Weapon Artistic License – Biology Defiant to the End Villain Ball Real Life Writes the Plot Daylight Horror Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Thriller Line-of-Sight Name Morality Pet Wicked Cultured Punny Name Green-Eyed Monster Villainous Breakdown Distracted by the Sexy Unreliable Narrator Anti-Villain Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Love at First Sight Scare Chord Adaptation Expansion Killed Mid-Sentence Tempting Fate Video Credits Took a Level in Jerkass Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome An Axe to Grind Silent Movie Re-Cut Only Known by Their Nickname She Cleans Up Nicely Jerkass Shoot the Shaggy Dog Mighty Whitey "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Parental Incest Tap on the Head I Did What I Had to Do Dressing as the Enemy Ironic Echo Fatal Flaw Parental Abandonment The X of Y Demoted to Extra Evil Plan Adapted Out Ax-Crazy Does This Remind You of Anything? Animal Motifs Fish out of Water Red Right Hand Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Red Oni, Blue Oni Cat Scare Once More, with Clarity! Hooker with a Heart of Gold Stealth Hi/Bye Ms. Fanservice Department of Redundancy Department Badass Bookworm Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Evil Brit Logo Joke Undying Loyalty Deliberate Values Dissonance Very Loosely Based on a True Story Informed Ability After the End The End... Or Is It? Heroic BSoD Contrived Coincidence Index of Film Westerns The Cameo Time Skip Meaningful Background Event Narrator Amoral Attorney Here We Go Again! Villain Opening Scene Disappeared Dad Never Trust a Trailer Depraved Bisexual Evil Is Petty Beard of Evil Wham Shot The Alleged Car Product Placement Alliterative Name The Alcoholic Neck Snap Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Black Best Friend Death by Adaptation Romantic False Lead Retcon Important Haircut Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Pretty in Mink Take a Third Option Corrupt Corporate Executive Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Dirty Coward Rule of Cool Papa Wolf Foil One Steve Limit One-Man Army Faking the Dead Bloody Hilarious All There in the Script Mooks NO INDOOR VOICE Maybe Ever After Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Zombie Stories Our Vampires Are Different "The Reason You Suck" Speech Unwitting Instigator of Doom Peek-a-Boo Corpse Mama Bear Eldritch Abomination Bunny-Ears Lawyer All Just a Dream Meaningful Name Bowdlerise Race Against the Clock Vacation Films Belligerent Sexual Tension Lampshade Hanging Anachronic Order Ship Tease Pimped-Out Dress Country Matters Cool Shades Bound and Gagged Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Canadian Movies Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Badass in a Nice Suit Insult Backfire Superhero Small Name, Big Ego Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass How We Got Here Laughing Mad Awesome, but Impractical Immune to Bullets Sealed Evil in a Can Italian Films He Knows Too Much Not Quite Dead Refuge in Audacity Rule of Funny Children Are Innocent Black and Gray Morality Not Even Bothering with the Accent Meaningful Echo Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Not So Above It All Conspicuous CG Death Seeker Actor Allusion It's All About Me Fourth Date Marriage Be Careful What You Wish For Big "NO!" Wrong Genre Savvy Jerk Jock Your Cheating Heart Sequel Hook Captain Ersatz Almost Kiss Madness Mantra What Happened to the Mouse? Scary Black Man Henpecked Husband Fantasy Films Obfuscating Stupidity Self-Deprecation Chekhov's Gun Dirty Cop Heroic Sacrifice Unspoken Plan Guarantee Redemption Equals Death It Will Never Catch On Camera Abuse Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Science Fiction Films Gone Horribly Right Silence Is Golden "Shaggy Dog" Story Instant Death Bullet Reality Is Unrealistic Sir Swears-a-Lot Auto Erotica Shut Up, Hannibal! Heroes Want Redheads Blood from the Mouth The Stoner Kick the Son of a Bitch Early Installment Weirdness Grey and Gray Morality Male Gaze Sanity Slippage Brother–Sister Incest Curse Cut Short Big Fancy House Martial Arts Movie Villain with Good Publicity Air-Vent Passageway Stuff Blowing Up Plot Hole Bad Boss Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Cold-Blooded Torture Central Theme Fainting Canon Foreigner Face Death with Dignity Hollywood Law Imagine Spot Easily Forgiven Made of Iron Heel–Face Turn Overprotective Dad Book-Ends Loophole Abuse Male Frontal Nudity Monumental Damage Death by Irony Ominous Latin Chanting Based on a True Story Double Entendre Victoria's Secret Compartment Bald of Evil Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Retirony Slashed Throat Historical-Domain Character And the Adventure Continues Married to the Job Poor Communication Kills Your Head A-Splode Reality Has No Subtitles Vitriolic Best Buds Put on a Bus Motor Mouth Redshirt Army Left the Background Music On Accidental Misnaming Extreme Doormat Fake Shemp The Quiet One Creator Cameo I'm a Humanitarian Big Damn Heroes Kick the Dog The Ace Brutal Honesty Psychological Thriller Politically Incorrect Villain Dark and Troubled Past Training Montage Even Evil Has Loved Ones The Faceless Love Triangle Calling the Old Man Out Darker and Edgier "Awesome McCool" Name Extremely Short Timespan Manchild No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Soundtrack Dissonance Eye Scream Manly Tears Hope Spot Adaptational Villainy Getting Crap Past the Radar Affably Evil Big Applesauce Never Found the Body Match Cut Offscreen Teleportation Gainax Ending The Mole Mr. Exposition Bottomless Magazines Rousing Speech Insane Troll Logic Idiot Ball Rule of Symbolism Documentary Beware the Nice Ones Suspiciously Similar Substitute Ambiguous Ending Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Dumb Blonde Dramatic Gun Cock The Dog Bites Back Mythology Gag For Want of a Nail Police Brutality Aside Glance Dual Wielding Not Using the "Z" Word Naked People Are Funny Title Drop Improbable Weapon User Broken Pedestal Our Zombies Are Different Drives Like Crazy Darkest Hour Arch-Enemy Amusing Injuries Evil Is Hammy Drowning My Sorrows The Dreaded Blonde, Brunette, Redhead One-Word Title Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Roaring Rampage of Revenge Hell Is That Noise Action Prologue Cain and Abel Make It Look Like an Accident Frame-Up Knight Templar Camp Gay Jerkass Has a Point Improbable Aiming Skills Action Genre Jump Scare Crazy-Prepared Anti-Hero Kill It with Fire Becoming the Mask Off with His Head! 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Epic Fail I Have Your Wife Does Not Like Shoes Deus ex Machina Totally Radical Scenery Porn Crucified Hero Shot Artistic License – Law The Chessmaster Face–Heel Turn Black Comedy Rape Film Noir Karma Houdini Ascended Extra The '60s Paper-Thin Disguise Breaking the Fourth Wall Reckless Gun Usage Combat Pragmatist Chiaroscuro My Greatest Failure Dogged Nice Guy Works Set in World War II Pre-Mortem One-Liner B-Movie Unusually Uninteresting Sight Attempted Rape It's Personal Genre Shift Public Domain Feature Films Would Hit a Girl Cat Fight Bullying a Dragon Award-Bait Song The Big Guy Novelization Protagonist Title The Hero Shower Scene Establishing Character Moment Rasputinian Death Knife Nut Evil Counterpart The Load Abusive Parents Naïve Newcomer Stalker with a Crush Historical In-Joke Unresolved Sexual Tension Determinator Suddenly SHOUTING! Stylistic Suck The Smart Guy Artistic License – Physics Death Glare The '90s Bait-and-Switch Badass Normal Funny Background Event As Himself The Stoic MacGuffin Storming the Castle Christmas Movies Index Authority Equals Asskicking Did Not Get the Girl Disproportionate Retribution Funny Foreigner Artistic License – History Due to the Dead The Bad Guy Wins No Antagonist Red Eyes, Take Warning Mr. Fanservice Friend to All Children Better to Die than Be Killed Coming-of-Age Story Offscreen Moment of Awesome Tranquil Fury Have a Gay Old Time Straight Gay Author Avatar The Lost Lenore Television Movie Index Bond Villain Stupidity What the Hell, Hero? What You Are in the Dark Eiffel Tower Effect Armor-Piercing Question Shipper on Deck This Is Gonna Suck Happily Married Insistent Terminology The Lancer Decoy Protagonist An Arm and a Leg Cool Old Lady No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Expository Hairstyle Change Annoying Younger Sibling A Date with Rosie Palms Deconstruction Pretty Little Headshots Hypocritical Humor Berserk Button Animated Credits Opening The Cavalry Ungrateful Bastard I Want My Beloved to Be Happy All Men Are Perverts British Films Affectionate Parody Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! The Remake Epic Movie Real Life Moment Killer Brick Joke Call-Back Adaptational Attractiveness Not So Different True Companions No-Sell Plucky Comic Relief Character Development Bury Your Gays Drugs Are Bad Chekhov's Skill Eureka Moment Cool Car Damsel in Distress Only One Name Asshole Victim Loads and Loads of Characters Taking You with Me And I Must Scream Fire-Forged Friends 20 Minutes into the Future Closed Circle Posthumous Character Room Full of Crazy Villain Protagonist Genre Throwback Batman Gambit Star-Crossed Lovers As Long as It Sounds Foreign Framing Device Major Injury Underreaction Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Made of Explodium Faux Affably Evil Punch-Clock Villain Defrosting Ice Queen Flipping the Bird Fan Disservice The '50s Catapult Nightmare Abhorrent Admirer Casting Gag You Have Outlived Your Usefulness The Ditz Big Brother Instinct Humiliation Conga Earn Your Happy Ending The Bully Covers Always Lie Up to Eleven Didn't Think This Through The Mafia Beauty Is Never Tarnished Mercy Kill Adult Fear Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" French Films Exact Words Smug Snake Corpsing You Killed My Father Fanservice Extra Sole Survivor Death by Sex Playing Gertrude Not What It Looks Like Black Dude Dies First As the Good Book Says... Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Shown Their Work Rule of Three Ghost Fiction Say My Name Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Drill Sergeant Nasty Adults Are Useless Spiritual Successor Pragmatic Villainy Action Survivor Smoking Is Cool Guile Hero The Oner The Musical Anguished Declaration of Love Japanese Films Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Serial Killer The Brute Card-Carrying Villain Vomit Discretion Shot You Have Failed Me timeperiod Those Wacky Nazis Dissonant Serenity Bare Your Midriff Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Stock Footage Stealth Pun Interrupted Suicide Obviously Evil Butt-Monkey Taking the Bullet The Reveal Those Two Guys Neck Lift Blatant Lies Sports Stories For the Evulz Break the Haughty Needs Wiki Magic Love Bond One-Liner Australian Movies Film Series Rape as Drama Curb-Stomp Battle Dying Moment of Awesome Parental Substitute Ass Shove Properly Paranoid All There in the Manual Bring My Brown Pants She's Got Legs Empathic Environment Rewatch Bonus Fatal Family Photo Celebrity Paradox Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Soft Glass Romantic Comedy Everyone Has Standards Deadpan Snarker Overly Long Gag Reality Ensues Accidental Murder Horror Films Pragmatic Adaptation Honor Before Reason My God, What Have I Done? Early-Bird Cameo Non-Indicative Name Babies Ever After Cluster F-Bomb Obstructive Bureaucrat Shell-Shocked Veteran Those Two Bad Guys The Chick Nothing Is Scarier Action Girl Blood Knight Chekhov's Gunman Names to Run Away from Really Fast War Is Hell Artistic License – Gun Safety Woman Scorned Mundane Made Awesome Every Car Is a Pinto Freudian Excuse Dramatic Irony Lock and Load Montage Sinister Minister A.I. Is a Crapshoot Mystery and Detective Films Bittersweet Ending Credits Gag Cowboy Cop Foregone Conclusion The Voiceless Break the Cutie Shirtless Scene Leave the Camera Running Hate Sink Developing Doomed Characters Vampire Fiction Hong Kong Films Demonic Possession Wretched Hive Together in Death Spared by the Adaptation Twist Ending Gratuitous English The Place Big Eater Adaptation Name Change Light Is Not Good Brainless Beauty Missing Mom Lighter and Softer Mistaken for Gay Film Noir Index Captain Obvious Arc Words Nice Hat Too Dumb to Live Half the Man He Used to Be Bland-Name Product Animal Title Index Anyone Can Die Groin Attack Adaptational Badass Not So Stoic Deliberately Monochrome Greater-Scope Villain The Great Depression Exactly What It Says on the Tin Slap-Slap-Kiss Recycled IN SPACE! Adaptational Heroism Guns Akimbo Even Evil Has Standards Back from the Dead German Films Ambiguous Disorder Irony Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Heel Realization Ripped from the Headlines Cassandra Truth Apocalypse How Bavarian Fire Drill In the Back Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Domestic Abuse Deal with the Devil Suspiciously Specific Denial Evil vs. Evil Good Is Not Nice Malevolent Masked Men Boom, Headshot! Eyepatch of Power Death of a Child From Nobody to Nightmare Parental Neglect Antagonist Title Serious Business Bolivian Army Ending Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Big Bad Genre Savvy Agony of the Feet Hoist by His Own Petard You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Running Gag Spell My Name with an "S" Never My Fault Same Language Dub Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique "Well Done, Son!" 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They Really Do Love Each Other Retired Badass Bloodier and Gorier Femme Fatale Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Alpha Bitch Fat Bastard Show Within a Show Creative Closing Credits Double-Meaning Title Evil Sounds Deep Bilingual Bonus Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Kubrick Stare Rated M for Manly Slasher Movie Slasher Smile A God Am I The '70s Gorn Man on Fire Fantastic Racism Mad Scientist Diabolus ex Machina Call-Forward Alas, Poor Villain An Aesop Bi the Way Unusual Euphemism Intrepid Reporter Author Appeal Car Fu Russian Films Meet Cute Composite Character Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Dutch Angle Daddy's Girl Precision F-Strike Hero Antagonist Mexican Standoff The Vamp Artistic License – Military Music Stories No Name Given May–December Romance Gory Discretion Shot Fate Worse than Death Hollywood Darkness Skewed Priorities Vomit Indiscretion Shot Enemy Mine folderlabel Arranged Marriage There Is No Kill Like Overkill Sequel Escalation Foreshadowing