Tropescilloscope: Chewing the Scenery

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