Tropescilloscope: Celebrity Paradox

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From Nobody to Nightmare Faking the Dead Aside Glance Blatant Lies Refuge in Audacity A God Am I Race Lift Recycled IN SPACE! Five-Man Band Betty and Veronica Not Using the "Z" Word Race Against the Clock Frame-Up Imagine Spot Tagline Coming-of-Age Story Dogged Nice Guy A.I. Is a Crapshoot Breaking the Fourth Wall As Long as It Sounds Foreign Suspiciously Specific Denial Bitch in Sheep's Clothing He Knows Too Much Action Prologue Punny Name Humiliation Conga Deadpan Snarker Make It Look Like an Accident Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Police are Useless Star-Crossed Lovers Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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Dying Moment of Awesome La Résistance The End... Or Is It? 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Bloody Hilarious Ax-Crazy The Voiceless Henpecked Husband It Will Never Catch On Author Appeal Adaptational Attractiveness Central Theme Slasher Movie Big Bad Duumvirate Eureka Moment Paper-Thin Disguise The Dreaded Light Is Not Good Downer Ending Insistent Terminology Smoking Is Cool No Antagonist Science Fiction Films Adapted Out It's All About Me Unreliable Narrator Agony of the Feet Kill 'em All Dramatic Gun Cock Rule of Funny Nothing Is Scarier Badass Bookworm Casting Gag Cassandra Truth Empathic Environment Video Credits A Father to His Men In the Back Outrun the Fireball Re-Cut Dropped a Bridge on Him Major Injury Underreaction Celebrity Paradox Gratuitous English Adaptational Heroism Break the Haughty Fourth Date Marriage Sports Stories Too Dumb to Live Adults Are Useless "Awesome McCool" Name Wrong Genre Savvy Mr. Fanservice Shower Scene Face Death with Dignity The Mole Historical Villain Upgrade Defiant to the End Hero of Another Story Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Evil Is Petty Precision F-Strike All for Nothing I Need a Freaking Drink Darker and Edgier Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Crazy-Prepared Expy Exact Words Faux Affably Evil Despair Event Horizon It's Personal Show Within a Show Rasputinian Death Alas, Poor Villain Fingore Deus ex Machina Cool Car Evil Brit Getting Crap Past the Radar Bunny-Ears Lawyer Dirty Coward Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Is Serious Business Mugging the Monster Twist Ending Disappeared Dad Setting Update Important Haircut Hero Antagonist The X of Y Kubrick Stare Our Zombies Are Different Jump Scare Truth in Television Genre Savvy I Want My Beloved to Be Happy The Dog Bites Back Air-Vent Passageway The Ghost Off-into-the-Distance Ending Mr. Exposition Dwindling Party Ascended Extra Eye Scream Silent Movie Wicked Cultured The Smurfette Principle timeperiod Does This Remind You of Anything? Author Avatar Jerkass Has a Point Crazy Jealous Guy Psychological Thriller Get Out! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Hell Is That Noise Rule of Cool Dumb Blonde Index of Film Westerns Groin Attack Black Comedy Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Japanese Films Rule of Symbolism Dirty Cop The Cameo Alliterative Name Red Oni, Blue Oni Fantastic Racism Manchild Loads and Loads of Characters Domestic Abuse The Lost Lenore Obfuscating Stupidity Dark Reprise Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Early-Bird Cameo Not Even Bothering with the Accent Costume Porn Red Eyes, Take Warning Silence Is Golden Heel Realization Whole Plot Reference My Beloved Smother Oh, Crap! Here We Go Again! Framing Device Curse Cut Short Throwing Your Sword Always Works Scary Black Man Improvised Weapon Wham Line Deconstruction Dramedy Covers Always Lie Killed Mid-Sentence Chekhov's Gunman Mystery and Detective Films