Tropescilloscope: Contrived Coincidence

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

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Show Within a Show Mexican Standoff Developing Doomed Characters Your Cheating Heart Dark Is Not Evil Action Prologue Villain Song Disguised in Drag Artistic License – History Mighty Whitey Crapsack World Adaptational Attractiveness Fate Worse than Death Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Is a Crapshoot Pimped-Out Dress Aluminum Christmas Trees Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Better to Die than Be Killed Extreme Doormat Catch-Phrase A God Am I Didn't Think This Through Disproportionate Retribution Market-Based Title Romantic Comedy O.O.C. Is Serious Business Final Girl Brainless Beauty Sacrificial Lion Nice Guy Face–Heel Turn Central Theme Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Unwitting Instigator of Doom Mythology Gag The Hero Dies Fantastic Racism Epic Movie Up to Eleven Historical Hero Upgrade The Reveal My Beloved Smother Big Fancy House Cat Scare Homage Rule of Funny Leave the Camera Running Ripped from the Headlines Insult Backfire Trailers Always Spoil Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Let's Get Dangerous! Bloody Hilarious Hate Sink Henpecked Husband The Alleged Car Mooks Cool Shades Death by Adaptation MacGuffin Fatal Flaw Cruel and Unusual Death Here We Go Again! 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My Greatest Failure Karma Houdini Loads and Loads of Characters Disney Villain Death Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Faux Affably Evil Parental Abandonment Brother–Sister Incest Hero Antagonist Ungrateful Bastard Adaptation Distillation Gorn There Is No Kill Like Overkill Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Taking You with Me Distracted by the Sexy Decoy Protagonist Karmic Death Early-Bird Cameo Playing Gertrude Red Eyes, Take Warning Skewed Priorities Corpsing Evil Plan Wham Line The Ghost The '80s Attempted Rape Non-Indicative Name Well-Intentioned Extremist Belligerent Sexual Tension Gone Horribly Right Deadpan Snarker Antagonist Title In Name Only Abhorrent Admirer Rule of Cool Straight Gay Paper-Thin Disguise Retired Badass Faking the Dead Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Manipulative Bastard Broken Aesop Never Trust a Trailer Rule of Three Alpha Bitch Adaptational Badass Famous Last Words Get Out! Department of Redundancy Department Coming-of-Age Story Mistaken for Gay Break the Haughty Ambiguous Ending Love at First Sight Rasputinian Death Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other The Lost Lenore Stalker with a Crush Arc Words Car Fu Asshole Victim Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Historical-Domain Character Villain with Good Publicity From Nobody to Nightmare Make It Look Like an Accident Jerkass Has a Point Dramatic Irony Serial Killer Wounded Gazelle Gambit Boom, Headshot! Lampshade Hanging Hollywood Law He Who Fights Monsters Shipper on Deck Everyone Has Standards Air-Vent Passageway Toplessness from the Back Death Glare Bad Boss The Un-Reveal "Shaggy Dog" Story Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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