Tropescilloscope: Cassandra Truth

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Guy Cool Old Lady The Hero Dies An Arm and a Leg Crucified Hero Shot Green-Eyed Monster Crazy-Prepared Italian Films Throwing Your Sword Always Works Tempting Fate Important Haircut Lighter and Softer Soundtrack Dissonance Stealth Pun The Musical You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Word of God Toplessness from the Back Destination Defenestration Covers Always Lie Our Vampires Are Different Skewed Priorities Badass Longcoat Humans Are Bastards Morality Pet The Stinger Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Cruel and Unusual Death Dumb Blonde Children Are Innocent Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Agony of the Feet She Cleans Up Nicely Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Fake Shemp Only Known by Their Nickname Five-Man Band Ambiguously Gay Random Events Plot Scenery Gorn Four-Temperament Ensemble Crapsack World Training Montage Line-of-Sight Name Gone Horribly Right Bloodier and Gorier The Sociopath In Medias Res Almost Kiss Friend to All Children Camera Abuse Adaptational Badass MacGuffin Chekhov's Gun Big Brother Instinct Stalker with a Crush Double Entendre Refuge in Audacity Batman Gambit Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Fanservice Outrun the Fireball Gorn Epic Fail "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Karma Houdini Brick Joke For Want of a Nail Bowdlerise Butt-Monkey Bland-Name Product Our Zombies Are Different Kubrick Stare Unresolved Sexual Tension Ominous Latin Chanting Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Domestic Abuse Australian Movies Book-Ends Slap-Slap-Kiss Awesome, but Impractical Older Than They Look All Girls Want Bad Boys Sequel Hook Funny Background Event Fanservice Extra Fan Disservice A.I. Is a Crapshoot Death by Sex Break the Cutie Fatal Family Photo Creepy Child Bar Brawl Mood Whiplash Department of Redundancy Department Sir Swears-a-Lot Tagline Reality Has No Subtitles Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! After the End Lock and Load Montage Pragmatic Villainy Left the Background Music On Took a Level in Badass Really Gets Around Twist Ending Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Rule of Funny Fantasy Films Dropped a Bridge on Him Neck Snap The '90s Be Careful What You Wish For The Place Hero Antagonist Rich Bitch Paper-Thin Disguise Alliterative Name Disappeared Dad Sacrificial Lion Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Horror Comedy Romantic Comedy Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Mighty Whitey Lampshade Hanging Heel–Face Turn Evil vs. Evil Hooker with a Heart of Gold World of Ham No Antagonist Here We Go Again! It Can Think Revenge Antagonist Title Plucky Comic Relief Abhorrent Admirer Adapted Out Curb-Stomp Battle Amusing Injuries Everyone Has Standards Self-Deprecation "Shaggy Dog" Story I Have Your Wife Deconstruction Cassandra Truth Evil Brit Jitter Cam Tap on the Head Large Ham The '70s Big "NO!" Gainax Ending Artistic License – Gun Safety Artistic License – Physics Conspicuous CG Reckless Gun Usage Psycho for Hire Kick the Son of a Bitch All Just a Dream Eiffel Tower Effect What You Are in the Dark Insistent Terminology No Name Given Black Best Friend Badass Boast Obfuscating Stupidity The Smart Guy Brainless Beauty Room Full of Crazy The Ditz Hope Spot Big Bad Duumvirate Race Lift My God, What Have I Done? No-Sell Auto Erotica Based on a True Story Romantic False Lead Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Overly Long Gag Composite Character Downer Ending Not So Different Shut Up, Hannibal! Dying Moment of Awesome Black Dude Dies First Meaningful Background Event Non-Indicative Name Rape as Drama This Is Gonna Suck Accidental Murder Captain Ersatz Camp Gay Red Right Hand Demoted to Extra Real Life Writes the Plot Anyone Can Die Informed Ability Rasputinian Death timeperiod Instant Death Bullet Gender Flip Spanner in the Works Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Race Against the Clock Cat Fight Precision F-Strike Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Taking You with Me Hero of Another Story Music Stories The Smurfette Principle Scare Chord Let's Get Dangerous! Face–Heel Turn Character Development Bavarian Fire Drill Sinister Minister Male Gaze Pet the Dog Big Bad Soft Glass Spiritual Successor Foil Adaptation Name Change Historical-Domain Character Rousing Speech Attempted Rape The Stoic True Companions Anachronism Stew Reality Is Unrealistic Unwitting Instigator of Doom Beta Couple Henpecked Husband Thriller Boom, Headshot! Evil Is Petty Suspiciously Similar Substitute Famous Last Words Spell My Name with an "S" Canadian Movies BFG Manchild Country Matters Wham Line You Have Failed Me Truth in Television Storming the Castle Noodle Incident The Bad Guy Wins Blackmail Darker and Edgier Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Death Seeker Not So Stoic Apocalypse How One-Word Title Military and Warfare Films War Is Hell Epic Movie Real Life Adults Are Useless Once More, with Clarity! Public Domain Feature Films The '50s Bait-and-Switch Aside Glance Motor Mouth Straight Gay Rule of Symbolism Suddenly SHOUTING! Heroic Sacrifice The Faceless Naked People Are Funny A God Am I Framing Device Dirty Cop Adaptation Expansion Bloodless Carnage Obviously Evil The Load Contrived Coincidence The Alcoholic Animal Title Index La Résistance Defrosting Ice Queen Cain and Abel Hate Sink Naïve Newcomer Arc Words Hypocrite Disguised in Drag Obstructive Bureaucrat Bolivian Army Ending Took a Level in Jerkass No Ending Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Black and Gray Morality Unusual Euphemism Neck Lift Manly Tears Parental Substitute Superhero Villain Song Rated M for Manly Taking the Bullet No OSHA Compliance Back from the Dead A Minor Kidroduction Only in It for the Money Adult Fear Femme Fatale Due to the Dead Smoking Is Cool Big Damn Heroes Better to Die than Be Killed Expy Affectionate Parody Anachronic Order Intrepid Reporter Silent Movie Would Hurt a Child Parental Incest Malevolent Masked Men It's Personal Nice Guy Did Not Get the Girl Worthy Opponent Bond Villain Stupidity Together in Death Defiant to the End Market-Based Title Artistic License – Military Names to Run Away from Really Fast Vacation Films Fantastic Racism Evil Laugh Establishing Character Moment Knight Templar The Atoner Heel Realization Villainous Breakdown Deliberately Monochrome Pretty Little Headshots Red Eyes, Take Warning He Knows Too Much Chekhov's Gunman Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Playing Gertrude Dirty Coward Pyrrhic Victory Early-Bird Cameo Good Is Not Nice Dissonant Serenity Take a Third Option Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Bad Boss No Celebrities Were Harmed The Alleged Car Alas, Poor Villain Historical Hero Upgrade Action Genre Wrong Genre Savvy Broken Pedestal Hollywood Darkness One Steve Limit The Stoner Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Documentary Redemption Equals Death Eldritch Abomination Slasher Movie Comically Missing the Point Empathic Environment Gilligan Cut Amoral Attorney Pay Evil unto Evil Implacable Man Death by Irony Jerk Jock Maybe Ever After Last-Name Basis Determinator Tranquil Fury The Starscream Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Does This Remind You of Anything? I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Every Car Is a Pinto The Cameo Broken Aesop Only a Flesh Wound Badass in a Nice Suit Pimped-Out Dress In Name Only Dull Surprise Match Cut Body Horror Gold Digger Demonic Possession Improvised Weapon Nice Hat Guile Hero Unspoken Plan Guarantee Disney Death Killed Mid-Sentence Woman in White Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Laser-Guided Karma Bi the Way Deliberate Values Dissonance Stuff Blowing Up Wounded Gazelle Gambit The Mole Rule of Cool The End... Or Is It? 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They Really Do Love Each Other Dark Reprise German Films Have a Gay Old Time Psychological Thriller Meaningful Echo Extremely Short Timespan Victoria's Secret Compartment Accidental Misnaming The Power of Love Immune to Bullets Dressing as the Enemy Index of Film Westerns Deus ex Machina No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Horror Films Bullying a Dragon Aluminum Christmas Trees B-Movie Brutal Honesty My Greatest Failure Hair-Trigger Temper Stylistic Suck Arch-Enemy Those Wacky Nazis British Films Freudian Excuse Drives Like Crazy Faux Affably Evil Stealth Hi/Bye O.O.C. Is Serious Business Mooks Deadpan Snarker The X of Y Earn Your Happy Ending Catapult Nightmare Retcon Japanese Films Bald of Evil Police are Useless "Awesome McCool" Name Author Avatar Intergenerational Friendship Bury Your Gays Scary Black Man Hollywood Law Evil Counterpart Hong Kong Films Grievous Bottley Harm Star-Crossed Lovers Anguished Declaration of Love And Starring Shirtless Scene Suspiciously Specific Denial Award-Bait Song And I Must Scream The Dreaded Parental Abandonment Action Survivor Double-Meaning Title The Reveal Abusive Parents Heroes Want Redheads The Chick Ms. Fanservice Mythology Gag Dutch Angle Corrupt Corporate Executive Even Evil Has Loved Ones All There in the Manual Foreshadowing The Dog Bites Back Curse Cut Short Serial Killer Serious Business Chewing the Scenery Adaptational Heroism Author Appeal Dramedy Catch-Phrase Captain Obvious Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Freeze-Frame Bonus Big Applesauce Unreliable Narrator Cloudcuckoolander Bloody Hilarious Spiteful Spit Running Gag Woman Scorned Man on Fire Villain Protagonist Meet Cute Happily Married Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Evil Plan Pretty in Mink Sanity Slippage Peek-a-Boo Corpse Dual Wielding Mercy Kill Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Ghost Fiction Not What It Looks Like Enemy Mine Cool Shades All for Nothing Mind Screw Product Placement Ass Shove Dark and Troubled Past Film Noir Off with His Head! Never Trust a Trailer Insult Backfire Your Head A-Splode Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Expository Hairstyle Change Ripped from the Headlines Monumental Damage Black Comedy Retirony Fourth Date Marriage May–December Romance Leaning on the Fourth Wall The Hero Eye Scream Narrator N-Word Privileges Beard of Evil Interrupted Suicide One-Man Army Not Quite Dead Evil-Detecting Dog From Bad to Worse Light Is Not Good Fun with Acronyms Hell Is That Noise Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique All There in the Script Closed Circle I'm a Humanitarian Re-Cut The '80s Daylight Horror Continuity Nod Sealed Evil in a Can Never Found the Body Dark Is Not Evil Whole Plot Reference Shout-Out Fire-Forged Friends The Quiet One Annoying Younger Sibling Wretched Hive Celebrity Paradox Anti-Hero Break the Haughty Would Hit a Girl Fish out of Water NO INDOOR VOICE Moment Killer I Did What I Had to Do Badass Grandpa Vomit Discretion Shot The Ace I Need a Freaking Drink Asshole Victim Punny Name Overprotective Dad The '60s Babies Ever After Greater-Scope Villain Kill It with Fire Rewatch Bonus Anti-Villain Fatal Flaw Becoming the Mask Eureka Moment Darkest Hour Dramatic Gun Cock Chase Scene Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Mad Scientist Visual Pun Red Shirt Christmas Movies Index Corpsing Sexy Discretion Shot Get Out! The Oner Groin Attack Flashback Easily Forgiven Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Genre Shift Didn't Think This Through Gory Discretion Shot Cool Car Disney Villain Death Shower Scene Casting Gag A Father to His Men Advertised Extra Driven to Suicide Reality Ensues Up to Eleven Roaring Rampage of Revenge Early Installment Weirdness Action Prologue Kick the Dog Mistaken for Gay More Dakka Made of Explodium Silence Is Golden Sci-Fi Horror Blood from the Mouth Psychopathic Manchild Face Death with Dignity Love Triangle Mystery and Detective Films Russian Films Betty and Veronica Your Cheating Heart You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Ax-Crazy Vampire Fiction The Brute Well-Intentioned Extremist Big Eater Artistic License – Geography Belligerent Sexual Tension Title Drop Missing Mom She's Got Legs Married to the Job Jump Scare Diabolus ex Machina Does Not Like Shoes Brother–Sister Incest Laughing Mad Ascended Extra All Men Are Perverts Adaptation Dye-Job Card-Carrying Villain Knife Nut Arranged Marriage Call-Back Smug Snake Cluster F-Bomb Disproportionate Retribution Jerkass Car Fu It Will Never Catch On Drowning My Sorrows Logo Joke Insane Troll Logic Big Fancy House As Himself As Long as It Sounds Foreign Offscreen Moment of Awesome Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Bare Your Midriff Animal Motifs Vitriolic Best Buds Big-Bad Ensemble Works Set in World War II Villain Ball Exact Words The Un-Reveal Same Language Dub Wicked Cultured Developing Doomed Characters Badass Normal Mugging the Monster Failed a Spot Check Totally Radical Drill Sergeant Nasty Artistic License – Biology Shown Their Work Extreme Doormat Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Irony Danny Peary Cult Movies List Depraved Bisexual The Big Guy Red Herring Dogged Nice Guy The Dragon There Is No Kill Like Overkill Call-Forward Death of a Child Blood Knight Beware the Nice Ones Flipping the Bird Retired Badass Historical Villain Upgrade Villain with Good Publicity Needs Wiki Magic Love In the Back Guns Akimbo Animated Credits Opening Idiot Ball Central Theme Cool Old Guy Leave the Camera Running Black Comedy Rape The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Recycled IN SPACE! Male Frontal Nudity Off-into-the-Distance Ending Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Calling the Old Man Out An Aesop Hypocritical Humor Only One Name For the Evulz As You Know Half the Man He Used to Be Science Fiction Films Air-Vent Passageway Posthumous Character Mama Bear Affably Evil Adaptation Distillation Nothing Is Scarier The Bully Film Series Setting Update French Films Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Dirty Old Man Parental Neglect Bound and Gagged Too Dumb to Live Kids Are Cruel Pre-Mortem One-Liner Dwindling Party Crazy Jealous Guy Beauty Is Never Tarnished Undying Loyalty The Ghost Damsel in Distress Ungrateful Bastard What Happened to the Mouse? Fainting Adaptational Attractiveness Biopic Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Broken Bird Bond One-Liner Historical In-Joke Adorkable '80s Hair Adaptational Villainy Evil Is Hammy Dark Action Girl Fiery Redhead Getting Crap Past the Radar Gratuitous English Armor-Piercing Question The Mafia Evil Sounds Deep Genre Savvy Cat Scare Age Lift Shoot the Shaggy Dog Berserk Button A Date with Rosie Palms Dies Wide Open Police Brutality Zombie Stories Sports Stories Not So Above It All Actually Pretty Funny Karmic Death Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Make It Look Like an Accident Actor Allusion Scenery Porn Dramatic Irony Those Two Guys Put on a Bus He Who Fights Monsters Creator Cameo Sequel Escalation Death Glare Bilingual Bonus Grey and Gray Morality From Nobody to Nightmare Eagleland Despair Event Horizon Badass Bookworm Humiliation Conga Shell-Shocked Veteran Jerkass Has a Point Final Girl An Axe to Grind Love at First Sight Manic Pixie Dream Girl Take That! Never My Fault Blatant Lies The Vamp Distracted by the Sexy Slasher Smile Fingore Poor Communication Kills The Casanova Show Within a Show Bottomless Magazines Loads and Loads of Characters Vomit Indiscretion Shot Ambiguous Disorder Improbable Weapon User Chekhov's Skill Kill 'em All Artistic License – History Honor Before Reason Coming-of-Age Story Sadistic Choice Jerk with a Heart of Gold My Beloved Smother Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Artistic License – Law Action Girl Authority Equals Asskicking Television Movie Index Ship Tease Meaningful Name As the Good Book Says... Bad "Bad Acting" Ragtag Bunch of Misfits "The Reason You Suck" Speech The Voiceless Very Loosely Based on a True Story Foregone Conclusion Combat Pragmatist Small Name, Big Ego Handicapped Badass Even Evil Has Standards Determinator aka: The Determinator Sassy Black Woman The Cavalry Trailers Always Spoil Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Death by Adaptation folderlabel Mexican Standoff Spared by the Adaptation Reasonable Authority Figure The Chessmaster Alpha Bitch You Killed My Father Daddy's Girl Improbable Aiming Skills Not Even Bothering with the Accent Red Oni, Blue Oni Chiaroscuro Mr. Fanservice Fate Worse than Death Redshirt Army Shipper on Deck Token Minority Slashed Throat Major Injury Underreaction Papa Wolf Costume Porn 20 Minutes into the Future The Great Depression Frame-Up