Tropescilloscope: Combat Pragmatist

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