Tropescilloscope: Contrived Coincidence

Something really unlikely happens but nobody acknowledges how unlikely it is. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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French Films Affably Evil The Stinger Horror Films Reality Is Unrealistic Demoted to Extra How We Got Here Reality Has No Subtitles Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Anyone Can Die Evil Brit Disney Death Hero of Another Story Dressing as the Enemy Better to Die than Be Killed Dropped a Bridge on Him It's All About Me Black Comedy Rape Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Romantic False Lead Red Oni, Blue Oni The Stoic Posthumous Character Mad Scientist She Cleans Up Nicely Twist Ending Advertised Extra Cat Fight Mugging the Monster Cruel and Unusual Death My God, What Have I Done? Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Pretty in Mink Pay Evil unto Evil Ominous Latin Chanting The Remake Yandere Bad "Bad Acting" Final Girl Product Placement Police Brutality Blackmail Alas, Poor Villain Freudian Excuse Catch-Phrase Bilingual Bonus The Smart Guy Kubrick Stare Bottomless Magazines Wretched Hive Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Pragmatic Villainy Superhero Redshirt Army Butt-Monkey Film Noir Cool Car Artistic License – Gun Safety In the Back Unusual Euphemism Lampshade Hanging Sassy Black Woman One-Man Army Loads and Loads of Characters Dark Reprise Large Ham Works Set in World War II Fiery Redhead Funny Background Event Storming the Castle Too Dumb to Live Insane Troll Logic Tempting Fate Flipping the Bird Double Entendre One-Word Title Vampire Fiction Homage The Stoner Neck Lift Mr. Fanservice Pyrrhic Victory Black Best Friend Hooker with a Heart of Gold Tagline Revenge Up to Eleven Martial Arts Movie Curse Cut Short Children Are Innocent "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Despair Event Horizon He Who Fights Monsters No Celebrities Were Harmed Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Insistent Terminology Jitter Cam Evil Laugh Even Evil Has Standards Worthy Opponent The Chessmaster Femme Fatale Stuff Blowing Up Jerkass Has a Point What the Hell, Hero? As You Know Never Found the Body Adaptational Heroism Blood Knight Hero Antagonist Make It Look Like an Accident Instant Death Bullet Dogged Nice Guy Informed Ability timeperiod Ax-Crazy Defrosting Ice Queen Irony Translation Convention Here We Go Again! Narrator Scenery Gorn The Voiceless Intergenerational Friendship Defiant to the End Camp Gay My Greatest Failure Older Than They Look Ascended Extra Jerkass Big Brother Instinct Manipulative Bastard Throwing Your Sword Always Works Super Strength The Dragon Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Death Glare Due to the Dead Truth in Television Downer Ending Sinister Minister Villain Ball Evil Counterpart Names to Run Away from Really Fast Silence Is Golden Australian Movies Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Military and Warfare Films Love at First Sight Easily Forgiven Funny Foreigner Cain and Abel Redemption Equals Death This Is Gonna Suck Abusive Parents And Starring Heroes Want Redheads Coming-of-Age Story Slashed Throat Kids Are Cruel Unresolved Sexual Tension Badass Longcoat The Lost Lenore What You Are in the Dark No-Sell Evil-Detecting Dog Belligerent Sexual Tension It Will Never Catch On Film Noir Index Deal with the Devil Novelization Shirtless Scene N-Word Privileges Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Groin Attack Big Bad Gorn Parental Abandonment I Have Your Wife Air-Vent Passageway Adaptation Name Change The Cavalry Bittersweet Ending Eiffel Tower Effect "Shaggy Dog" Story Same Language Dub Action Genre Male Gaze The Atoner Karma Houdini Motor Mouth Fanservice Extra Cool Old Lady The Hero Jump Scare An Axe to Grind Apocalypse How Fainting Author Appeal Recycled IN SPACE! Major Injury Underreaction Sole Survivor Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Meet Cute The Faceless And the Adventure Continues Half the Man He Used to Be Decoy Protagonist Chekhov's Skill NO INDOOR VOICE The Film of the Book Woman Scorned Genre Shift Index of Film Westerns Red Herring Arranged Marriage Curb-Stomp Battle Age Lift Unspoken Plan Guarantee Animated Credits Opening Only One Name The Hero Dies Big "NO!" Spanner in the Works Hoist by His Own Petard I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Madness Mantra Sexy Discretion Shot Rule of Symbolism The Oner Wham Line Dumb Blonde More Dakka Historical Hero Upgrade Jerk Jock All Men Are Perverts Continuity Nod Plucky Comic Relief Mistaken for Gay Outrun the Fireball Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Real Life Needs Wiki Magic Love Time Skip Green-Eyed Monster Not So Above It All Anti-Hero Guile Hero Psychopathic Manchild Not So Different Awesome, but Impractical Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Cool Guns Card-Carrying Villain Death by Irony Smug Snake Auto Erotica Overprotective Dad Fish out of Water Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Ghost Fiction Russian Films The Dreaded Comically Missing the Point Humans Are Bastards Shut Up, Hannibal! Foil Actually Pretty Funny Composite Character Mooks The '80s Well-Intentioned Extremist Straight Gay All Just a Dream Artistic License – Law Darker and Edgier Woman in White Parental Incest Early-Bird Cameo Good Is Not Nice Rated M for Manly The Chick I Need a Freaking Drink Captain Obvious Laser-Guided Karma You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Faking the Dead Taking You with Me Big Damn Heroes Would Hurt a Child Mind Screw Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Domestic Abuse Fire-Forged Friends Antagonist Title Attempted Rape Serious Business Cassandra Truth Expy Distracted by the Sexy Honor Before Reason MacGuffin The Place Skewed Priorities Morality Pet In Medias Res Arch-Enemy Actor Allusion The Casanova Developing Doomed Characters Gory Discretion Shot The Vamp The '50s Our Zombies Are Different Hell Is That Noise Sacrificial Lion Bullying a Dragon Overly Long Gag Dwindling Party Four-Temperament Ensemble Stepford Smiler Enemy Mine Shout-Out Corrupt Corporate Executive The '90s Facial Horror Agony of the Feet Mythology Gag Big Eater The Load Bait-and-Switch Beard of Evil Faux Affably Evil Rule of Funny Heroic BSoD What Happened to the Mouse? Call-Forward Soft Glass Vacation Films Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Slasher Smile Every Car Is a Pinto Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Villain Opening Scene Nice Hat Babies Ever After Cat Scare Red Shirt Hollywood Law Manic Pixie Dream Girl Improbable Aiming Skills You Killed My Father Hidden Depths Riddle for the Ages Bloodier and Gorier Hope Spot No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Mama Bear All Girls Want Bad Boys Retcon Central Theme Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Say My Name Running Gag Author Avatar Danny Peary Cult Movies List Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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Adapted Out Ms. Fanservice Insult Backfire Disney Villain Death All There in the Script Bring My Brown Pants Match Cut Face Death with Dignity Even Evil Has Loved Ones Offscreen Teleportation Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Meaningful Background Event Stalker with a Crush British Films Sequel Escalation Evil Plan The Mole Kill It with Fire Wrong Genre Savvy Eldritch Abomination Brother–Sister Incest Music Stories Sealed Evil in a Can Hollywood Darkness Shoot the Shaggy Dog Market-Based Title Pimped-Out Dress Biopic Alpha Bitch Humiliation Conga Naïve Newcomer Gone Horribly Right Roaring Rampage of Revenge Police are Useless It's Personal I'm a Humanitarian Eyepatch of Power Fatal Flaw Big-Bad Ensemble Random Events Plot Death Seeker Vomit Indiscretion Shot Deconstruction Kick the Son of a Bitch Adaptation Dye-Job Psychological Thriller Refuge in Audacity Shipper on Deck Frame-Up Dirty Cop Fan Disservice Animal Title Index Put on a Bus The Un-Reveal Stealth Pun Japanese Films And I Must Scream 20 Minutes into the Future Mexican Standoff Foreshadowing Bald of Evil Pre-Mortem One-Liner Gold Digger Red Right Hand Stylistic Suck Bond One-Liner Papa Wolf Black Comedy Mr. Exposition She's Got Legs Blatant Lies Foregone Conclusion Shell-Shocked Veteran Unusually Uninteresting Sight Based on a True Story Historical In-Joke Man on Fire Henpecked Husband Big Fancy House Lock and Load Montage The '70s Your Head A-Splode Gratuitous English "Awesome McCool" Name A Minor Kidroduction Visual Pun Video Credits Punch-Clock Villain Bowdlerise Line-of-Sight Name Driven to Suicide Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Deadpan Snarker Taking the Bullet Cool Old Guy Did Not Get the Girl Brutal Honesty Animal Motifs Ass Shove Reasonable Authority Figure The '60s Once More, with Clarity! 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German Films Lighter and Softer Never My Fault Stealth Hi/Bye Meaningful Echo Male Frontal Nudity Nothing Is Scarier Pretty Little Headshots Demonic Possession The Ditz Pragmatic Adaptation Rich Bitch Rasputinian Death It Can Think Not Even Bothering with the Accent Cowboy Cop Badass Bookworm Off-into-the-Distance Ending Gainax Ending Scenery Porn Those Two Guys Let's Get Dangerous! Almost Kiss Nice Guy Dirty Coward Unreliable Narrator Bi the Way Adaptational Badass Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Heterosexual Life-Partners Boom, Headshot! Last-Name Basis O.O.C. Is Serious Business The Quiet One Romantic Comedy Psycho for Hire No Ending Leitmotif Naked People Are Funny Ironic Echo Fantasy Films Hypocritical Humor Smoking Is Cool Chekhov's Gun Soundtrack Dissonance Have a Gay Old Time Sir Swears-a-Lot Leaning on the Fourth Wall Cool Shades Non-Indicative Name Department of Redundancy Department Diabolus ex Machina Bloodless Carnage As Long as It Sounds Foreign Together in Death Dying Moment of Awesome Imagine Spot Spiritual Successor