Tropescilloscope: Chiaroscuro

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Is a Crapshoot Dark and Troubled Past Earn Your Happy Ending Never Found the Body Naïve Newcomer Gory Discretion Shot Early-Bird Cameo Very Loosely Based on a True Story Soft Glass Improbable Aiming Skills Wretched Hive Visual Pun timeperiod Race Against the Clock Sir Swears-a-Lot Mr. Exposition Country Matters Pre-Mortem One-Liner The Bully Even Evil Has Standards Loads and Loads of Characters Unreliable Narrator Properly Paranoid Badass Grandpa Scenery Porn Cool Shades Cat Scare Historical Hero Upgrade No Antagonist Shell-Shocked Veteran Humiliation Conga Insane Troll Logic Hypocritical Humor Artistic License – Law The Cavalry In Name Only Star-Crossed Lovers Hate Sink Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Unresolved Sexual Tension Martial Arts Movie Dramatic Gun Cock Cold-Blooded Torture As Himself Only a Flesh Wound World of Ham Imagine Spot Artistic License – Biology Cowboy Cop Big Damn Heroes Half the Man He Used to Be All Just a Dream Index of Film Westerns The '90s Noodle Incident Actor Allusion A Date with Rosie Palms Based on a True Story Vomit Indiscretion Shot From Nobody to Nightmare Shower Scene An Axe to Grind Blood Knight Instant Death Bullet Creepy Child Overprotective Dad Historical-Domain Character Riddle for the Ages Due to the Dead Villain Ball Ass Shove The Great Depression Ms. Fanservice Dark Action Girl Sequel Escalation Missing Mom Heel Realization Music Stories Sadistic Choice Sole Survivor Big Eater "The Reason You Suck" Speech Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Hoist by His Own Petard An Aesop Gender Flip Hero of Another Story Cool Old Lady Mystery and Detective Films Dying Moment of Awesome Television Movie Index Greater-Scope Villain Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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