Tropescilloscope: Butt-Monkey

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Guy The Lancer Red Right Hand The Voiceless Thriller Blackmail Ungrateful Bastard Intergenerational Friendship Token Minority Exact Words Enemy Mine Those Wacky Nazis Chase Scene Meaningful Background Event Parental Substitute Dark Action Girl Casting Gag Sexy Discretion Shot Nice Hat Alas, Poor Villain The Place Historical Hero Upgrade Bury Your Gays Faux Affably Evil Deliberate Values Dissonance Race Lift Pragmatic Villainy Translation Convention Fantasy Films Amusing Injuries Fan Disservice You Killed My Father Knight Templar Badass Longcoat Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Undying Loyalty Vacation Films Recycled IN SPACE! Men Are the Expendable Gender Karma Houdini Protagonist Title Fun with Acronyms It Will Never Catch On Important Haircut Sequel Escalation I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Bloodier and Gorier An Axe to Grind The End... Or Is It? 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He Who Fights Monsters Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Older Than They Look Defrosting Ice Queen Faking the Dead Shipper on Deck Wham Shot Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Bullying a Dragon Villainous Breakdown The Vamp A God Am I Put on a Bus Break the Cutie Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Anyone Can Die Bare Your Midriff It's All About Me Artistic License – Military Television Movie Index Offscreen Moment of Awesome Psycho for Hire Captain Obvious No-Sell Central Theme Big "NO!" Dirty Old Man Almost Kiss Disappeared Dad Drowning My Sorrows The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Eureka Moment Together in Death Badass Boast The Reveal Insane Troll Logic Tagline Beard of Evil Eyepatch of Power Hair-Trigger Temper Author Avatar Based on a True Story Chiaroscuro Retirony Light Is Not Good Gilligan Cut Drugs Are Bad Fate Worse than Death Ascended Extra Random Events Plot Wounded Gazelle Gambit Anachronism Stew Stealth Pun Double Entendre Take That! What Happened to the Mouse? Evil Laugh Badass in a Nice Suit Wrong Genre Savvy Silence Is Golden Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Adaptation Expansion Improbable Aiming Skills Conspicuous CG Berserk Button Expository Hairstyle Change Arc Words Happily Married Shut Up, Hannibal! Ghost Fiction Adaptation Dye-Job Humans Are Bastards Daddy's Girl Small Name, Big Ego Flipping the Bird Death by Irony Red Herring Hong Kong Films Age Lift Exactly What It Says on the Tin Made of Iron Cat Scare Brother–Sister Incest Our Vampires Are Different Extreme Doormat Market-Based Title Empathic Environment Narrator Genre Savvy Developing Doomed Characters Historical-Domain Character Death Glare All There in the Script Failed a Spot Check Spared by the Adaptation Non-Indicative Name Card-Carrying Villain Logo Joke Disney Villain Death Trailers Always Spoil NO INDOOR VOICE "Where Are They Now?" 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Deus ex Machina Due to the Dead Domestic Abuse Funny Foreigner My Greatest Failure Abusive Parents Aside Glance Bi the Way You Have Failed Me Bolivian Army Ending Gainax Ending The Bully Motor Mouth Greater-Scope Villain Loads and Loads of Characters Heterosexual Life-Partners Curb-Stomp Battle Peek-a-Boo Corpse No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Straight Gay Suspiciously Specific Denial She's Got Legs Obviously Evil Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Rated M for Manly Distracted by the Sexy Heroic Sacrifice Shirtless Scene Villain Ball Horror Comedy Defiant to the End The Stoic Cain and Abel Off-into-the-Distance Ending The Oner Informed Ability Rule of Three Precision F-Strike Foregone Conclusion Sealed Evil in a Can Artistic License – Law The Remake German Films It Can Think Unreliable Narrator Tempting Fate You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Pyrrhic Victory Pretty Little Headshots The Dragon In Name Only More Dakka Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? From Nobody to Nightmare Mighty Whitey Victoria's Secret Compartment Implacable Man Dwindling Party Drill Sergeant Nasty Papa Wolf Bad Boss Adaptational Badass Action Genre Adaptation Name Change Insult Backfire Stalker with a Crush Hollywood Darkness There Is No Kill Like Overkill Let's Get Dangerous! Coming-of-Age Story Race Against the Clock Depraved Bisexual Epic Movie Leave the Camera Running Totally Radical Evil-Detecting Dog Ironic Echo Better to Die than Be Killed Up to Eleven Deal with the Devil Only a Flesh Wound Red Eyes, Take Warning Plot Hole How We Got Here Kick the Son of a Bitch Fanservice Taking the Bullet It's Personal Creative Closing Credits Face Death with Dignity Rousing Speech Big Bad Duumvirate Anti-Hero Catapult Nightmare Pimped-Out Dress Gorn The X of Y Truth in Television Fingore The '80s Rewatch Bonus Frame-Up She Cleans Up Nicely All for Nothing Politically Incorrect Villain Training Montage Breaking the Fourth Wall Stealth Hi/Bye Creepy Child Rule of Funny Henpecked Husband Skewed Priorities Romantic Comedy Riddle for the Ages Vomit Discretion Shot Mr. Fanservice Animal Motifs Broken Aesop Groin Attack Authority Equals Asskicking Hoist by His Own Petard Combat Pragmatist Death Seeker Handicapped Badass Mercy Kill The Stoner Arch-Enemy I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Ambiguous Ending Word of God Film Noir Index Manchild Bland-Name Product Moment Killer One Steve Limit Meaningful Echo Big Brother Instinct timeperiod Extremely Short Timespan Bad "Bad Acting" Soundtrack Dissonance Even Evil Has Standards Real Life Reality Has No Subtitles Playing Gertrude Arranged Marriage Once More, with Clarity! Nice Guy Blatant Lies Mooks Cool Car Jerk with a Heart of Gold The Faceless And I Must Scream Decoy Protagonist Big Damn Heroes World of Ham Big Eater Dirty Coward Alliterative Name Rape as Drama Unusually Uninteresting Sight Make It Look Like an Accident Woman in White Reality Ensues Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Big Fancy House Unspoken Plan Guarantee My God, What Have I Done? Red Shirt Slasher Movie Missing Mom You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Index of Film Westerns Film Series Get Out! Advertised Extra The '90s 20 Minutes into the Future Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Dying Moment of Awesome BFG Improbable Weapon User Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Hollywood Law Grey and Gray Morality Imagine Spot Soft Glass Book-Ends Show Within a Show Hero of Another Story One-Word Title Not What It Looks Like Genre Throwback Meaningful Name Evil Plan Corpsing Product Placement Visual Pun Monumental Damage Every Car Is a Pinto Mind Screw O.O.C. Is Serious Business Closed Circle Green-Eyed Monster Black Best Friend Downer Ending Composite Character Biopic Disney Death Pragmatic Adaptation Never Trust a Trailer Took a Level in Jerkass Maybe Ever After The Power of Love Kubrick Stare Historical Villain Upgrade Poor Communication Kills Big Applesauce Say My Name No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Despair Event Horizon Does This Remind You of Anything? Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Asshole Victim Four-Temperament Ensemble Bloodless Carnage Gender Flip Back from the Dead Half the Man He Used to Be Dies Wide Open Leaning on the Fourth Wall Evil Brit Hero Antagonist Deadpan Snarker All Girls Want Bad Boys Mama Bear Costume Porn Mythology Gag Works Set in World War II Author Appeal The Un-Reveal Blood Knight Would Hit a Girl Cool Old Lady The Brute Have a Gay Old Time Reckless Gun Usage Major Injury Underreaction Taking You with Me Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Self-Deprecation Dark Is Not Evil Jerk Jock Accidental Misnaming Intrepid Reporter Only Known by Their Nickname Villain with Good Publicity Dropped a Bridge on Him Celebrity Paradox Running Gag Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Martial Arts Movie Manly Tears Shown Their Work Lighter and Softer The Sociopath Does Not Like Shoes Jerkass Has a Point Match Cut Hate Sink Mistaken for Gay The Big Guy Chewing the Scenery Suddenly SHOUTING! Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Novelization N-Word Privileges He Knows Too Much Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome A Date with Rosie Palms Death by Sex Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Disproportionate Retribution Accidental Murder Funny Background Event Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Dirty Cop Camera Abuse Evil Is Hammy In the Back '80s Hair Rich Bitch Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane The '60s Serious Business Award-Bait Song Made of Explodium Dull Surprise Crazy Jealous Guy Everyone Has Standards Overprotective Dad Male Gaze Loophole Abuse Bond Villain Stupidity No Celebrities Were Harmed Spiteful Spit Outrun the Fireball No Name Given Insistent Terminology Artistic License – Physics Stock Footage "Awesome McCool" Name Expy Heel Realization I Did What I Had to Do Retired Badass Documentary Butt-Monkey Animated Credits Opening Deliberately Monochrome Bar Brawl Real Life Writes the Plot Dramatic Irony Never Found the Body Drives Like Crazy Cruel and Unusual Death Russian Films I'm a Humanitarian Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Cassandra Truth Stepford Smiler A Father to His Men All Just a Dream Bound and Gagged Five-Man Band Captain Ersatz Line-of-Sight Name Here We Go Again! Kill 'em All Call-Back Eldritch Abomination Abhorrent Admirer Room Full of Crazy Ax-Crazy Femme Fatale Betty and Veronica Not So Stoic Crucified Hero Shot Awesome, but Impractical Framing Device The Mole Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Pet the Dog Love at First Sight For the Evulz Chekhov's Gunman Names to Run Away from Really Fast Early-Bird Cameo Badass Normal Morality Pet Gone Horribly Right Determinator Tranquil Fury Black and Gray Morality Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Gold Digger Malevolent Masked Men Fake Shemp Killed Mid-Sentence Cool Shades Death by Adaptation The Smart Guy Ms. Fanservice Sassy Black Woman "The Reason You Suck" Speech Eiffel Tower Effect Facial Horror And the Adventure Continues Kill It with Fire Man on Fire Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Pay Evil unto Evil Unresolved Sexual Tension Parental Neglect The Stinger As the Good Book Says... Apocalypse How Superhero Fiery Redhead Punny Name Cat Fight Heroes Want Redheads Yandere Dual Wielding Crazy-Prepared Police are Useless Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Cool Guns Serial Killer Shower Scene Not So Above It All Brainless Beauty Gory Discretion Shot Toplessness from the Back Not So Different Vomit Indiscretion Shot Smug Snake Death of a Child Gratuitous English Sanity Slippage Adults Are Useless Cold-Blooded Torture Historical In-Joke The Ditz Only One Name Driven to Suicide Mad Scientist The Ace Easily Forgiven Actually Pretty Funny Anti-Villain Foil Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Scare Chord Bavarian Fire Drill Call-Forward Black Comedy Rape Daylight Horror Sir Swears-a-Lot Interrupted Suicide Plucky Comic Relief Eye Scream One-Man Army Whole Plot Reference Sports Stories Guile Hero Curse Cut Short Married to the Job Artistic License – History Worthy Opponent Good Is Not Nice Oh, Crap! Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds The Bad Guy Wins Friend to All Children No OSHA Compliance Big-Bad Ensemble Needs Wiki Magic Love Humiliation Conga Throwing Your Sword Always Works Action Girl Immune to Bullets Dressing as the Enemy Posthumous Character Bait-and-Switch Laser-Guided Karma Adapted Out Adaptational Heroism Artistic License – Gun Safety Sadistic Choice Continuity Nod Setting Update B-Movie French Films Early Installment Weirdness Bald of Evil Idiot Ball Reality Is Unrealistic Ambiguously Gay Screw the Rules, I Have Money! My Beloved Smother Refuge in Audacity Affably Evil Heel–Face Turn Adaptational Attractiveness The Hero The Starscream Slasher Smile Dumb Blonde Zombie Stories Public Domain Feature Films Actor Allusion Anachronic Order Dogged Nice Guy Madness Mantra Sinister Minister Villain Opening Scene Black Comedy Rule of Symbolism Evil vs. Evil An Arm and a Leg Japanese Films Large Ham Slap-Slap-Kiss Bond One-Liner The Load The Lost Lenore After the End Only Sane Man Broken Bird Ripped from the Headlines Nothing Is Scarier Hidden Depths Credits Gag Amoral Attorney Ship Tease Beauty Is Never Tarnished Flashback Adaptation Distillation Off with His Head! Obfuscating Stupidity Ambiguous Disorder Lampshade Hanging Your Cheating Heart Stylistic Suck Psychopathic Manchild Aluminum Christmas Trees Star-Crossed Lovers Your Head A-Splode Silent Movie Foreshadowing A.I. Is a Crapshoot Babies Ever After The '50s Parental Incest Freeze-Frame Bonus Dutch Angle Shoot the Shaggy Dog Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Wicked Cultured The Hero Dies Horror Films The Mafia I Have Your Wife Pretty in Mink Bittersweet Ending Stuff Blowing Up Christmas Movies Index Spanner in the Works From Bad to Worse Creator Cameo Double-Meaning Title Redshirt Army Unusual Euphemism Epic Fail Lock and Load Montage The Cameo Same Language Dub What the Hell, Hero? Cluster F-Bomb Music Stories Danny Peary Cult Movies List Roaring Rampage of Revenge Storming the Castle Male Frontal Nudity Cowboy Cop Evil Counterpart Blood from the Mouth Eagleland The Ghost The Atoner Time Skip Dark Reprise I Need a Freaking Drink Chekhov's Gun Police Brutality Bottomless Magazines Fainting May–December Romance Irony Scenery Gorn Catch-Phrase Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer The Dog Bites Back Left the Background Music On The Great Depression Tap on the Head Punch-Clock Villain Jitter Cam Mundane Made Awesome Alpha Bitch Fish out of Water Camp Gay Didn't Think This Through Belligerent Sexual Tension Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Rule of Cool Shout-Out Armor-Piercing Question Country Matters And Starring Villain Song Twist Ending Determinator aka: The Determinator Chekhov's Skill Noodle Incident What You Are in the Dark Psychological Thriller Cloudcuckoolander Neck Snap Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Action Survivor Never My Fault Hypocritical Humor Black Dude Dies First Bring My Brown Pants