Tropescilloscope: Comically Missing the Point
A character humorously misunderstands another person's point. (read more at tvtropes.org)
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A God Am I
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I Have Your Wife
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
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And I Must Scream
A Minor Kidroduction
I Did What I Had to Do
One Steve Limit
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Unresolved Sexual Tension
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Bury Your Gays
Dwindling Party
Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
This Is Gonna Suck
Face Death with Dignity
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Police Brutality
Heroic BSoD
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Evil Is Hammy
Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism
It's Personal
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Unspoken Plan Guarantee
Fanservice
Biopic
It Can Think
Mundane Made Awesome
Undying Loyalty
Scary Black Man
Double-Meaning Title
Woman Scorned
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!
"Shaggy Dog" Story
Rape as Drama
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Dies Wide Open
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Unwitting Instigator of Doom
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Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
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Rule of Funny
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Easily Forgiven
Only a Flesh Wound
Dissonant Serenity
Woman in White
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Took a Level in Jerkass
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Back from the Dead
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Fan Disservice
Artistic License Biology
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
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Big Damn Heroes
Translation Convention
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Amusing Injuries
One-Man Army
Ambiguous Ending
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Improbable Aiming Skills
Adaptation Distillation
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Didn't Think This Through
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Riddle for the Ages
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Jerkass
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Good Is Not Nice
Reality Is Unrealistic
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What Happened to the Mouse?
Never Trust a Trailer
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Bald of Evil
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"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Crazy Jealous Guy
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Your Head A-Splode
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No Ending
Getting Crap Past the Radar
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She Cleans Up Nicely
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Covers Always Lie
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Kids Are Cruel
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The Starscream
Heel Realization
Car Fu
Artistic License Gun Safety
Chekhov's Gun
Tap on the Head
Hidden Depths
Truth in Television
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One-Word Title
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Never Trust a Trailer
aka: Trailers Always Lie
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Silence Is Golden
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Bad "Bad Acting"
Immune to Bullets
You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign
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Morality Pet
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Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold
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You Killed My Father
Arranged Marriage
Camera Abuse
The Mafia
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What the Hell, Hero?
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Only in It for the Money
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Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
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Light Is Not Good
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Gone Horribly Right
Once More, with Clarity!
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Cassandra Truth
Motor Mouth
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Irony
Show Within a Show
The Voiceless
Sole Survivor
Imagine Spot
Pet the Dog
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Tempting Fate
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Older Than They Look
The End... Or Is It?
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Let's Get Dangerous!
As You Know
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From Nobody to Nightmare
Male Gaze
Romantic False Lead
Curb-Stomp Battle
Hope Spot
Badass Grandpa
Kubrick Stare
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Death of a Child
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
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Anyone Can Die
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
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Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
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Reality Has No Subtitles
Really Gets Around
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Chewing the Scenery
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My God, What Have I Done?
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Too Dumb to Live
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
Everyone Has Standards
Pun
aka: Incredibly Lame Pun
Loads and Loads of Characters
Evil vs. Evil
Cloudcuckoolander
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"Awesome McCool" Name
Mexican Standoff
She's Got Legs
Together in Death
Playing Gertrude
Be Careful What You Wish For
Establishing Character Moment
Dirty Cop
Beta Couple
Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Only Sane Man
Berserk Button
Deconstruction
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The '60s
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All Just a Dream
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All There in the Manual
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Papa Wolf
Kick the Dog
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I Need a Freaking Drink
Knife Nut
Slap-Slap-Kiss
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He Who Fights Monsters
The Quiet One
After the End
Psychological Thriller
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Jerkass Has a Point
Get Out!
An Axe to Grind
Bittersweet Ending
Meaningful Name
Epic Fail
Bring My Brown Pants
O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Red Eyes, Take Warning
Would Hurt a Child
Bolivian Army Ending
Meaningful Echo
Fish out of Water
Anti-Villain
Belligerent Sexual Tension
Breaking the Fourth Wall
Diabolus ex Machina
Defiant to the End
Logo Joke
Dramatic Irony
Blood from the Mouth
Broken Pedestal
An Aesop
Not So Above It All
Cool Car
Disproportionate Retribution
No Antagonist
Dark Reprise
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Bloodier and Gorier
Jitter Cam
Killed Mid-Sentence
Every Car Is a Pinto
Rule of Symbolism
Random Events Plot
Anachronic Order
La Résistance
Taking the Bullet
Real Life Writes the Plot
An Arm and a Leg
Annoying Younger Sibling
Early Installment Weirdness
Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Break the Cutie
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Creepy Child
Half the Man He Used to Be
Slasher Smile
Superhero
The Alcoholic
Abusive Parents
As the Good Book Says...
Roger Ebert: Great Movies List
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Never My Fault
Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Title Drop
Combat Pragmatist
Plot Hole
Adaptational Heroism
Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer
Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Cool Old Lady
Demoted to Extra
Central Theme
Developing Doomed Characters
Happily Married
Peek-a-Boo Corpse
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Girl-on-Girl Is Hot
Air-Vent Passageway
Reckless Gun Usage
Brainless Beauty
Not Using the "Z" Word
Guns Akimbo
Make It Look Like an Accident
Final Girl
Leave the Camera Running
Historical Villain Upgrade
Sanity Slippage
Anachronism Stew
Bare Your Midriff
Crucified Hero Shot
Pay Evil unto Evil
Dual Wielding
FaceHeel Turn
Mistaken for Gay
Toplessness from the Back
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
All Girls Want Bad Boys
Rousing Speech
Epic Movie
Affectionate Parody
Death by Adaptation
Chase Scene
Protagonist Title
Abhorrent Admirer
Closed Circle
Dramedy
All There in the Script
Non-Indicative Name
All for Nothing
Villain with Good Publicity
Scenery Porn
Left the Background Music On
Villain Ball
Mighty Whitey
Better to Die than Be Killed
Beware the Nice Ones
Chekhov's Gunman
Awesome, but Impractical
Femme Fatale
Cold-Blooded Torture
Sci-Fi Horror
Nice Hat
Faking the Dead
Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
Novelization
Foreshadowing
Serious Business
Overly Long Gag
Soundtrack Dissonance
Offscreen Teleportation
Foregone Conclusion
Country Matters
Red Shirt
"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Bavarian Fire Drill
Cain and Abel
Toilet Humour
aka: Toilet Humor
Line-of-Sight Name
Not So Stoic
Throwing Your Sword Always Works
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Affably Evil
Wicked Cultured
The Power of Love
Catapult Nightmare
Small Name, Big Ego
The Atoner
Dirty Old Man
The Faceless
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Did Not Get the Girl
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Nothing Is Scarier
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Put on a Bus
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The Load
Extremely Short Timespan
Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
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No-Sell
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Does Not Like Shoes
Celebrity Paradox
Almost Kiss
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Funny Background Event
Kill It with Fire
My Beloved Smother
Deal with the Devil
Skewed Priorities
Anti-Hero
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
Exact Words
Shirtless Scene
The Sociopath
Actually Pretty Funny
Bloody Hilarious
Only One Name
No Name Given
Gold Digger
I'm a Humanitarian
Never Found the Body
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
Earn Your Happy Ending
My Greatest Failure
Police are Useless
In Medias Res
Grievous Bottley Harm
Enemy Mine
Faux Affably Evil
Humiliation Conga
Arc Words
Parental Incest
Unreliable Narrator
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Adaptational Villainy
Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Greater-Scope Villain
Ms. Fanservice
Captain Obvious
The Film of the Book
Author Appeal
Trailers Always Spoil
Race Lift
Honor Before Reason
Dumb Blonde
Creator Cameo
Genre Savvy
Dying Moment of Awesome
Groin Attack
You Have Failed Me
Shout-Out
Despair Event Horizon
Sassy Black Woman
Pragmatic Adaptation
It's All About Me
Adult Fear
Married to the Job
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Catch-Phrase
Big Applesauce
Heroes Want Redheads
Politically Incorrect Villain
Slashed Throat
Pretty in Mink
Plucky Comic Relief
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The '90s
Ungrateful Bastard
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