Tropescilloscope: Chiaroscuro

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Is a Crapshoot Reality Is Unrealistic Irony Demoted to Extra Laughing Mad Continuity Nod Hypocrite Body Horror Cruel and Unusual Death Neck Snap Driven to Suicide Be Careful What You Wish For Artistic License – Military Car Fu In the Back Alas, Poor Villain Made of Explodium The Stoner From Nobody to Nightmare Breaking the Fourth Wall Brainless Beauty Blackmail Bullying a Dragon Twist Ending Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Curse Cut Short Facial Horror Celebrity Paradox Disproportionate Retribution Badass Bookworm Determinator aka: The Determinator Amusing Injuries Your Cheating Heart Final Girl Captain Obvious Four-Temperament Ensemble True Companions Hong Kong Films Logo Joke Those Wacky Nazis Wrong Genre Savvy Gratuitous English Closed Circle Spanner in the Works Tranquil Fury Blatant Lies Russian Films Monumental Damage Rule of Cool Male Gaze Random Events Plot Foreshadowing Race Lift Protagonist Title Dwindling Party Unusually Uninteresting Sight Psychological Thriller N-Word Privileges Make It Look Like an Accident Friend to All Children Face Death with Dignity Villain with Good Publicity Police are Useless Blood from the Mouth Failed a Spot Check Retired Badass Artistic License – Law Character Development Not Using the "Z" Word Killed Mid-Sentence Dutch Angle An Axe to Grind Fire-Forged Friends Enemy Mine Coming-of-Age Story Pet the Dog Rasputinian Death Adaptational Villainy All Just a Dream Sealed Evil in a Can Plucky Comic Relief I Need a Freaking Drink Chekhov's Gunman Bowdlerise Ms. Fanservice Femme Fatale I'm a Humanitarian Rule of Symbolism Redemption Equals Death Stuff Blowing Up Mr. Exposition Adaptation Name Change Product Placement Politically Incorrect Villain In Name Only Dramatic Gun Cock Calling the Old Man Out Offscreen Teleportation Camera Abuse Stylistic Suck BFG Vampire Fiction Flashback Genre Savvy Truth in Television Pay Evil unto Evil Fainting The Smurfette Principle Lampshade Hanging Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Is Serious Business Hair-Trigger Temper Wounded Gazelle Gambit Novelization Roaring Rampage of Revenge The '70s Auto Erotica Suddenly SHOUTING! Award-Bait Song Here We Go Again! 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