Tropescilloscope: Celebrity Paradox

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