Tropescilloscope: Coming-of-Age Story
Main character matures into adulthood throughout story. (read more at tvtropes.org)
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Say My Name
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
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In Name Only
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The Hero
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You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!
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Love Triangle
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Danny Peary Cult Movies List
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She's Got Legs
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Mistaken for Gay
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Not So Different
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War Is Hell
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Death by Adaptation
Rich Bitch
Never Found the Body
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Instant Death Bullet
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Cool Old Lady
Broken Aesop
What the Hell, Hero?
Alas, Poor Villain
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Token Minority
I Did What I Had to Do
Show Within a Show
Back from the Dead
Fatal Family Photo
Once More, with Clarity!
Not So Stoic
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Ms. Fanservice
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Recycled IN SPACE!
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Your Cheating Heart
20 Minutes into the Future
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Meet Cute
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Mercy Kill
Would Hurt a Child
Early-Bird Cameo
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Didn't Think This Through
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Half the Man He Used to Be
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Death of a Child
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He Who Fights Monsters
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A Minor Kidroduction
Psychological Thriller
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Silence Is Golden
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
Rewatch Bonus
Driven to Suicide
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
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Affably Evil
Due to the Dead
Drugs Are Bad
Black Dude Dies First
You Have Failed Me
MayDecember Romance
Woman in White
Death Seeker
As the Good Book Says...
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Psycho for Hire
One Steve Limit
Credits Gag
Stepford Smiler
Happily Married
Man on Fire
Chekhov's Gun
Auto Erotica
Too Dumb to Live
The Alleged Car
Slasher Smile
Action Girl
Evil Laugh
Obfuscating Stupidity
Shoot the Shaggy Dog
Only in It for the Money
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The Musical
Gorn
Historical-Domain Character
Sequel Escalation
Deliberately Monochrome
Freeze-Frame Bonus
The Oner
The Faceless
Dark Action Girl
Hollywood Law
The Alcoholic
Laser-Guided Karma
Married to the Job
Action Prologue
Dual Wielding
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Jerk Jock
Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Villain Ball
Documentary
Aluminum Christmas Trees
B-Movie
Blackmail
Bullying a Dragon
It Can Think
The Ditz
The Bad Guy Wins
Everyone Has Standards
Big Applesauce
Guns Akimbo
Adaptational Heroism
Pretty in Mink
Bad Boss