Tropescilloscope: Catch-Phrase

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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Bloodless Carnage The Cavalry Death Seeker Dramatic Irony Chewing the Scenery Reasonable Authority Figure Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Unusual Euphemism Dumb Blonde Lock and Load Montage Kill It with Fire Reckless Gun Usage Empathic Environment Facial Horror Psychopathic Manchild Anachronism Stew Enemy Mine Betty and Veronica Defrosting Ice Queen Meet Cute Mooks The Stinger Jerk with a Heart of Gold Missing Mom Heel–Face Turn Would Hurt a Child Have a Gay Old Time Bald of Evil Dark Is Not Evil Psychological Thriller Award-Bait Song Aluminum Christmas Trees Karma Houdini Big Eater Historical-Domain Character The Quiet One Rule of Cool The Chessmaster Spiteful Spit Extremely Short Timespan Bloody Hilarious The Stoic Beauty Is Never Tarnished Badass Longcoat The Load Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience "Awesome McCool" Name Fatal Family Photo Deadpan Snarker Did Not Get the Girl Made of Explodium Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Too Dumb to Live Race Against the Clock Crazy-Prepared Death by Adaptation Dirty Cop The '80s Hate Sink Badass in a Nice Suit The Bad Guy Wins It's All About Me Rousing Speech Insane Troll Logic Plucky Comic Relief Police Brutality Death of a Child Flipping the Bird Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer And the Adventure Continues Make It Look Like an Accident Plot Hole Mystery and Detective Films Break the Haughty World of Ham Would Hit a Girl Stylistic Suck Redshirt Army Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Heroic BSoD Asshole Victim Parental Incest Suddenly SHOUTING! Neck Lift Slashed Throat Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Artistic License – Military Sequel Escalation Gory Discretion Shot Mercy Kill Evil Plan Improbable Weapon User Horror Films Funny Foreigner Action Girl Setting Update Obstructive Bureaucrat Only Sane Man Horror Comedy Took a Level in Jerkass Idiot Ball Vomit Indiscretion Shot Fan Disservice Groin Attack Easily Forgiven Demonic Possession The Musical Never Trust a Trailer Nothing Is Scarier Villain with Good Publicity Manchild Jerkass Has a Point Homage Dramatic Gun Cock Artistic License – History Early-Bird Cameo Ass Shove Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Works Set in World War II Star-Crossed Lovers Paper-Thin Disguise Shown Their Work Vitriolic Best Buds Imagine Spot Very Loosely Based on a True Story The Dragon The Hero Dies Dual Wielding Spanner in the Works The Ghost Slasher Movie Retcon Disguised in Drag Final Girl The Smurfette Principle Neck Snap Dissonant Serenity Deliberate Values Dissonance Disproportionate Retribution Bad "Bad Acting" Fish out of Water Older Than They Look Major Injury Underreaction Lighter and Softer Made of Iron Love at First Sight Ax-Crazy B-Movie Even Evil Has Standards Sole Survivor He Who Fights Monsters Small Name, Big Ego Apocalypse How Red Right Hand Running Gag Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Stepford Smiler Ghost Fiction Accidental Murder Gilligan Cut Silence Is Golden Department of Redundancy Department Shipper on Deck Belligerent Sexual Tension Not What It Looks Like Evil Laugh Dwindling Party Epic Movie Adult Fear Unusually Uninteresting Sight Redemption Equals Death Book-Ends Victoria's Secret Compartment Public Domain Feature Films Science Fiction Films Time Skip Didn't Think This Through Spiritual Successor For Want of a Nail Daddy's Girl Thriller Camp Gay Soft Glass Fate Worse than Death Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Guile Hero What You Are in the Dark Call-Back Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Comically Missing the Point The Reveal Corpsing Peek-a-Boo Corpse Armor-Piercing Question Amoral Attorney Superhero Dark and Troubled Past Toplessness from the Back Sports Stories All Girls Want Bad Boys Not Using the "Z" Word Butt-Monkey Adaptational Villainy Taking the Bullet Freudian Excuse No Name Given "The Reason You Suck" Speech Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Big "NO!" Expy Guns Akimbo Eagleland Martial Arts Movie One Steve Limit Take a Third Option Unwitting Instigator of Doom Hypocrite Does Not Like Shoes This Is Gonna Suck Central Theme Ambiguous Ending Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Naked People Are Funny Punch-Clock Villain Mexican Standoff Politically Incorrect Villain Downer Ending Demoted to Extra Villain Ball Gold Digger One-Word Title Room Full of Crazy Hidden Depths Woman Scorned Rape as Drama Sinister Minister Body Horror In Medias Res Decoy Protagonist Due to the Dead The Alcoholic Exactly What It Says on the Tin Dogged Nice Guy Back from the Dead Alas, Poor Villain Fire-Forged Friends Continuity Nod An Aesop Badass Bookworm Everyone Has Standards Red Oni, Blue Oni Ship Tease Fanservice The Big Guy Off-into-the-Distance Ending Stock Footage Conspicuous CG Knight Templar Face–Heel Turn Handicapped Badass Evil Sounds Deep Crucified Hero Shot Costume Porn Evil Counterpart Amusing Injuries Character Development Cool Old Lady Pretty Little Headshots Friend to All Children Defiant to the End Cain and Abel Ripped from the Headlines Animal Motifs Biopic Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Precision F-Strike Sassy Black Woman Interrupted Suicide Black Best Friend Becoming the Mask What the Hell, Hero? Take That! Bare Your Midriff Alpha Bitch Tagline The Dog Bites Back Sci-Fi Horror The '60s Title Drop Wham Shot Kubrick Stare Chuck Cunningham Syndrome "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Rasputinian Death The End... Or Is It? Self-Deprecation Not So Different Revenge Woman in White Deliberately Monochrome Fantasy Films Television Movie Index Calling the Old Man Out Silent Movie The Ace Fanservice Extra Authority Equals Asskicking Animal Title Index Broken Bird Index of Film Westerns Male Frontal Nudity French Films Tap on the Head Coming-of-Age Story Spared by the Adaptation Laser-Guided Karma No Antagonist Instant Death Bullet Actually Pretty Funny Cluster F-Bomb Badass Normal Killed Mid-Sentence Morality Pet More Dakka Only in It for the Money Improvised Weapon Damsel in Distress Double Entendre Rule of Symbolism Deal with the Devil Pretty in Mink Only Known by Their Nickname Broken Aesop Left the Background Music On Henpecked Husband Brother–Sister Incest Retired Badass You Killed My Father Death Glare Jump Scare Adorkable Real Life Writes the Plot Bring My Brown Pants And I Must Scream Well-Intentioned Extremist The Un-Reveal Nice Hat Moment Killer 20 Minutes into the Future Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Refuge in Audacity Narrator Rewatch Bonus Re-Cut The Voiceless Big Brother Instinct Bond Villain Stupidity Artistic License – Law War Is Hell Vacation Films As the Good Book Says... 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Every Car Is a Pinto MacGuffin Credits Gag Shout-Out Funny Background Event Rich Bitch Eiffel Tower Effect Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Darkest Hour Half the Man He Used to Be Country Matters Animated Credits Opening Undying Loyalty Deus ex Machina Blatant Lies Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Let's Get Dangerous! Hero Antagonist folderlabel Wrong Genre Savvy Captain Obvious Show Within a Show Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Race Lift Not Quite Dead Genre Throwback Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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Meaningful Background Event Big-Bad Ensemble Hoist by His Own Petard Adaptational Attractiveness Heel Realization The Mafia You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Creative Closing Credits N-Word Privileges Adaptation Dye-Job Bond One-Liner Faux Affably Evil Pragmatic Villainy Historical Villain Upgrade Loophole Abuse Not Even Bothering with the Accent Action Prologue Action Genre Determinator Auto Erotica Pay Evil unto Evil Same Language Dub Almost Kiss Closed Circle Kick the Dog Humiliation Conga Oh, Crap! All There in the Manual Mistaken for Gay I Have Your Wife As You Know Grey and Gray Morality Straight Gay All There in the Script Hero of Another Story Wham Line Death by Irony Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Five-Man Band Police are Useless Tempting Fate Real Life Large Ham Danny Peary Cult Movies List Dressing as the Enemy Reality Ensues Light Is Not Good Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Cool Car Bullying a Dragon Market-Based Title Evil Brit Aside Glance Dramedy Big Fancy House No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Rated M for Manly Fatal Flaw Arranged Marriage Jerk Jock Roaring Rampage of Revenge Rule of Funny Faking the Dead Fourth Date Marriage Hollywood Law Anti-Hero Offscreen Teleportation Mad Scientist Mugging the Monster Offscreen Moment of Awesome Evil Is Petty The Cameo Nice Guy Loads and Loads of Characters Retirony NO INDOOR VOICE Fainting Overly Long Gag Here We Go Again! 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"Shaggy Dog" Story Getting Crap Past the Radar Informed Ability All Men Are Perverts Face Death with Dignity Dirty Old Man Drill Sergeant Nasty Psycho for Hire Blood from the Mouth Green-Eyed Monster The Mole Sealed Evil in a Can Evil vs. Evil Cassandra Truth Love Triangle Diabolus ex Machina Black and Gray Morality Flashback Domestic Abuse Jerkass The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite From Nobody to Nightmare No-Sell Sadistic Choice Call-Forward Dying Moment of Awesome Cold-Blooded Torture Insult Backfire Male Gaze Artistic License – Geography Not So Above It All I Did What I Had to Do The Hero Determinator aka: The Determinator Celebrity Paradox Adaptational Badass The Lancer Daylight Horror Sir Swears-a-Lot Depraved Bisexual Brick Joke The Alleged Car Developing Doomed Characters Gone Horribly Right Totally Radical Stealth Pun Taking You with Me Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Zombie Stories Covers Always Lie Punny Name Cool Old Guy Arc Words Red Eyes, Take Warning An Arm and a Leg Your Cheating Heart Cool Guns Abusive Parents Freeze-Frame Bonus Ambiguously Gay The Vamp Curse Cut Short Blood Knight Dark Reprise Man on Fire Music Stories Action Survivor Affably Evil The '90s Pyrrhic Victory Red Shirt Be Careful What You Wish For True Companions My Beloved Smother Attempted Rape Leitmotif A Date with Rosie Palms Awesome, but Impractical Villainous Breakdown Chase Scene Scare Chord Big Bad Mr. Exposition Bad Boss Femme Fatale Antagonist Title Noodle Incident Adaptation Expansion Alliterative Name Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Crapsack World Red Herring Captain Ersatz The Atoner Villain Protagonist Protagonist Title Karmic Death Author Appeal Sequel Hook Artistic License – Physics Your Head A-Splode Big Damn Heroes It's Personal Obviously Evil Adaptation Name Change Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Gorn Expository Hairstyle Change Line-of-Sight Name Leave the Camera Running Men Are the Expendable Gender Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Darker and Edgier No OSHA Compliance Drives Like Crazy Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Kids Are Cruel A Father to His Men Playing Gertrude Important Haircut Posthumous Character Hope Spot Never My Fault Arch-Enemy Bittersweet Ending Broken Pedestal Bland-Name Product Exact Words Scary Black Man Wretched Hive Shirtless Scene As Long as It Sounds Foreign Advertised Extra Truth in Television Those Two Bad Guys Mood Whiplash Anachronic Order Artistic License – Gun Safety Card-Carrying Villain Break the Cutie Training Montage Agony of the Feet Malevolent Masked Men Better to Die than Be Killed Combat Pragmatist The '50s Sanity Slippage In the Back Bury Your Gays Kill 'em All Big Bad Duumvirate Driven to Suicide Together in Death Meaningful Echo Heroic Sacrifice Crazy Jealous Guy Mythology Gag Early Installment Weirdness Accidental Misnaming Meaningful Name Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Despair Event Horizon Canon Foreigner Product Placement Corrupt Corporate Executive Eldritch Abomination Manly Tears Eye Scream Italian Films Framing Device Fantastic Racism Russian Films The Place Mind Screw What Happened to the Mouse? Foregone Conclusion Shell-Shocked Veteran Anti-Villain Dies Wide Open Grievous Bottley Harm Madness Mantra Cat Scare The Film of the Book Based on a True Story After the End Logo Joke Married to the Job Mama Bear Off with His Head! Establishing Character Moment No Ending Fun with Acronyms Throwing Your Sword Always Works Bound and Gagged The Chick Parental Neglect No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Poor Communication Kills Mundane Made Awesome Bi the Way A God Am I Affectionate Parody Hair-Trigger Temper Chiaroscuro Gratuitous English Even Evil Has Loved Ones Fiery Redhead Reality Is Unrealistic Slasher Smile Drugs Are Bad Does This Remind You of Anything? I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Shoot the Shaggy Dog My God, What Have I Done? 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