Tropescilloscope: Celebrity Paradox

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