Tropescilloscope: Cold-Blooded Torture

Subjecting people to severe pain either for information, as punishment, or out of sadistic pleasure. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Epilogue Not What It Looks Like Famous Last Words Fan Disservice Stalker with a Crush Dark Reprise Scenery Porn Hollywood Darkness The Musical Psychopathic Manchild The Remake Crapsack World Happily Married Mundane Made Awesome Cruel and Unusual Death Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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Early Installment Weirdness Shirtless Scene Deadpan Snarker Dark Action Girl Foregone Conclusion Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Took a Level in Jerkass Red Eyes, Take Warning Evil Is Hammy Suspiciously Specific Denial The Quiet One Gone Horribly Right Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Bond Villain Stupidity Dirty Cop Manchild Our Zombies Are Different Deal with the Devil Self-Deprecation Not Quite Dead Here We Go Again! Villain with Good Publicity It's Personal Genre Savvy Deliberately Monochrome Sadistic Choice Comically Missing the Point Due to the Dead Australian Movies Tranquil Fury Ax-Crazy Even Evil Has Standards I Have Your Wife Camp Gay Aside Glance Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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