Tropescilloscope: Celebrity Paradox

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