Tropescilloscope: Butt-Monkey

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Pay Evil unto Evil Butt-Monkey The Smart Guy Animal Title Index Improbable Aiming Skills Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping In Name Only Adorkable Beta Couple Deliberately Monochrome Motor Mouth Punch-Clock Villain Good Is Not Nice I Did What I Had to Do The Lancer Hero of Another Story Grievous Bottley Harm Mr. Exposition Public Domain Feature Films Paper-Thin Disguise Non-Indicative Name Death by Adaptation Fish out of Water Captain Obvious Arch-Enemy Pretty Little Headshots Even Evil Has Standards Broken Pedestal Continuity Nod Novelization Adaptational Heroism Left the Background Music On Bloodless Carnage "Well Done, Son!" Guy Bound and Gagged Market-Based Title Fantasy Films Groin Attack Chekhov's Gun Artistic License – Gun Safety No Celebrities Were Harmed Jump Scare Foreshadowing Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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