Tropescilloscope: Cool Guns

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My Greatest Failure Crazy-Prepared Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Horror Films Mr. Exposition Manchild Our Zombies Are Different The Alleged Car Author Avatar Fake Shemp Offscreen Teleportation Badass Longcoat Chase Scene Novelization Totally Radical Disproportionate Retribution The Lost Lenore Everyone Has Standards Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Agony of the Feet "The Reason You Suck" Speech Reckless Gun Usage Needs Wiki Magic Love Cool Car Once More, with Clarity! Hell Is That Noise Black Comedy Rape Have a Gay Old Time Canadian Movies Foregone Conclusion Ms. Fanservice Taking the Bullet Scare Chord Wham Shot Gratuitous English Fun with Acronyms Laughing Mad Even Evil Has Standards Here We Go Again! Romantic Comedy The Oner Dramatic Irony Shut Up, Hannibal! Not What It Looks Like The Ghost Blatant Lies Stealth Hi/Bye Bloodier and Gorier Adaptation Expansion Hidden Depths From Bad to Worse The Ditz Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! All for Nothing The Bad Guy Wins Politically Incorrect Villain Only One Name Ungrateful Bastard Adults Are Useless Department of Redundancy Department Calling the Old Man Out Male Gaze Rule of Cool As Long as It Sounds Foreign Race Lift Gorn Madness Mantra Vomit Indiscretion Shot Suspiciously Similar Substitute Leaning on the Fourth Wall Television Movie Index Mood Whiplash Affably Evil You Killed My Father Put on a Bus Kick the Dog Setting Update Red Oni, Blue Oni Bury Your Gays Reality Ensues Genre Savvy Back from the Dead Your Cheating Heart Narrator Villain Ball Sadistic Choice Babies Ever After The Remake Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Very Loosely Based on a True Story Smoking Is Cool Action Girl Adaptation Name Change Hate Sink Country Matters Break the Haughty Creator Cameo Deliberate Values Dissonance Ax-Crazy Jump Scare Animated Credits Opening Even Evil Has Loved Ones Award-Bait Song Bi the Way Twist Ending What the Hell, Hero? Deliberately Monochrome Hair-Trigger Temper Playing Gertrude Crucified Hero Shot Posthumous Character Villain Protagonist Animal Motifs The Dreaded Freudian Excuse Nice Guy Defrosting Ice Queen The Great Depression Sequel Hook Karma Houdini Meet Cute Fanservice Extra A Date with Rosie Palms Gone Horribly Right Take That! As Himself The Bully Translation Convention Ripped from the Headlines Anguished Declaration of Love Driven to Suicide Determinator aka: The Determinator Slap-Slap-Kiss Big Damn Heroes Recycled IN SPACE! The Hero Action Genre French Films Improvised Weapon Important Haircut Comically Missing the Point Affectionate Parody Celebrity Paradox Brainless Beauty O.O.C. Is Serious Business Blood Knight Humiliation Conga Morality Pet Corpsing Bowdlerise Real Life Writes the Plot Moment Killer Interrupted Suicide "Shaggy Dog" Story Captain Ersatz Gainax Ending Film Noir The Atoner Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Overly Long Gag Disguised in Drag All There in the Manual The '80s Dutch Angle Homage How We Got Here The Un-Reveal Darkest Hour Pragmatic Villainy Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome May–December Romance Depraved Bisexual Adorkable Brick Joke All Girls Want Bad Boys Fatal Family Photo Big-Bad Ensemble Chekhov's Skill Cat Scare Product Placement Shout-Out Title Drop Kill 'em All Establishing Character Moment Becoming the Mask Be Careful What You Wish For Obfuscating Stupidity Running Gag Heterosexual Life-Partners Cruel and Unusual Death You Have Failed Me Adaptation Distillation What Happened to the Mouse? 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Is a Crapshoot NO INDOOR VOICE Extreme Doormat Gory Discretion Shot Dwindling Party Dumb Blonde Improbable Weapon User Market-Based Title Together in Death Tagline This Is Gonna Suck Big Bad Duumvirate Based on a True Story Batman Gambit Greater-Scope Villain Russian Films Fingore Camp Gay Badass Bookworm Would Hurt a Child He Knows Too Much Covers Always Lie BFG Betty and Veronica German Films Zombie Stories Sir Swears-a-Lot Soundtrack Dissonance Peek-a-Boo Corpse Cain and Abel Fainting Crazy Jealous Guy Bare Your Midriff Adaptational Heroism Mr. Fanservice Never Trust a Trailer Aluminum Christmas Trees Naked People Are Funny Soft Glass Central Theme Expository Hairstyle Change World of Ham Bloodless Carnage The Dog Bites Back Dropped a Bridge on Him Retirony Hoist by His Own Petard Bittersweet Ending Music Stories Bar Brawl Catapult Nightmare Determinator Insistent Terminology Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Adaptational Badass Artistic License – Gun Safety Random Events Plot The Load Evil-Detecting Dog Bullying a Dragon Only in It for the Money Death by Irony Alpha Bitch Genre Shift Bond One-Liner Show Within a Show Heel–Face Turn Let's Get Dangerous! Video Credits Mexican Standoff La Résistance Italian Films Wounded Gazelle Gambit Alas, Poor Villain Older Than They Look Action Prologue Documentary Time Skip The Cameo Cool Old Guy Didn't Think This Through Author Appeal The End... Or Is It? 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The Quiet One Unreliable Narrator Death Seeker Worthy Opponent Body Horror Hypocrite Rape as Drama Imagine Spot Insult Backfire Cool Shades Boom, Headshot! Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Bad Boss Coming-of-Age Story Artistic License – Military Closed Circle Dogged Nice Guy Not So Different The Stinger Film Noir Index Facial Horror Exact Words Unusual Euphemism Gilligan Cut Empathic Environment Married to the Job Chekhov's Gunman Death by Adaptation Decoy Protagonist Suddenly SHOUTING! Meaningful Echo I Have Your Wife Villain with Good Publicity Blood from the Mouth Extremely Short Timespan The Alcoholic Precision F-Strike A Minor Kidroduction British Films I Did What I Had to Do It Can Think Those Two Bad Guys Ghost Fiction Bunny-Ears Lawyer Rule of Three Artistic License – History Superhero Cassandra Truth Car Fu In the Back Cowboy Cop Stuff Blowing Up Intrepid Reporter Sports Stories Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Guile Hero Evil Laugh The Faceless Bad "Bad Acting" Badass Boast Failed a Spot Check Man on Fire Yandere Black Best Friend Dies Wide Open Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Lock and Load Montage Psychological Thriller Demoted to Extra Ironic Echo Butt-Monkey Off with His Head! Anti-Hero Redshirt Army Costume Porn Captain Obvious Mystery and Detective Films Woman in White Straight Gay Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Blonde, Brunette, Redhead As You Know "Awesome McCool" Name Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Honor Before Reason Star-Crossed Lovers You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Corrupt Corporate Executive Protagonist Title Femme Fatale Dramatic Gun Cock Stock Footage Developing Doomed Characters Improbable Aiming Skills Slasher Movie For Want of a Nail Four-Temperament Ensemble Pre-Mortem One-Liner Apocalypse How Ambiguously Gay Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Handicapped Badass Villain Opening Scene Instant Death Bullet Token Minority Historical In-Joke Beta Couple Dull Surprise Deal with the Devil Toplessness from the Back Conspicuous CG The Dragon Jerk with a Heart of Gold Earn Your Happy Ending Good Is Not Nice Freeze-Frame Bonus Bland-Name Product Re-Cut He Who Fights Monsters Red Shirt Oh, Crap! Poor Communication Kills Only a Flesh Wound Artistic License – Biology You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Reasonable Authority Figure Jerkass Almost Kiss Black and Gray Morality Cool Guns Jerk Jock Jerkass Has a Point Redemption Equals Death Lampshade Hanging Would Hit a Girl Left the Background Music On Made of Iron Adapted Out Naïve Newcomer Loophole Abuse Killed Mid-Sentence Malevolent Masked Men Room Full of Crazy Race Against the Clock Death Glare Pretty Little Headshots Unresolved Sexual Tension Fantasy Films Military and Warfare Films Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Darker and Edgier Early Installment Weirdness Riddle for the Ages Off-into-the-Distance Ending Throwing Your Sword Always Works Awesome, but Impractical Badass Normal Monumental Damage Outrun the Fireball Victoria's Secret Compartment Ominous Latin Chanting The '50s Eiffel Tower Effect Deconstruction The Sociopath No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Armor-Piercing Question Plucky Comic Relief Belligerent Sexual Tension Male Frontal Nudity No Name Given Slashed Throat Due to the Dead The Place Evil Counterpart Red Eyes, Take Warning Properly Paranoid Knight Templar Faking the Dead True Companions Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Death of a Child Sassy Black Woman I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Rasputinian Death Non-Indicative Name There Is No Kill Like Overkill Flipping the Bird Heroic BSoD The Lancer Dramedy Creepy Child Big Applesauce It's Personal In Medias Res Character Development Arranged Marriage Serial Killer Combat Pragmatist Retcon Famous Last Words Death by Sex Ass Shove Suspiciously Specific Denial "Well Done, Son!" Guy Card-Carrying Villain Berserk Button Truth in Television Deadpan Snarker Domestic Abuse Does This Remind You of Anything? Break the Cutie Evil Brit All Just a Dream "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Broken Aesop Kids Are Cruel Bottomless Magazines Mind Screw Skewed Priorities Book-Ends Defiant to the End Ugly Guy, Hot Wife The Film of the Book Stepford Smiler Hypocritical Humor Wham Line Children Are Innocent Adaptational Villainy Say My Name Ship Tease Early-Bird Cameo Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Annoying Younger Sibling Laser-Guided Karma Hero Antagonist Informed Ability Guns Akimbo Black Dude Dies First Funny Background Event Blackmail Bound and Gagged Cloudcuckoolander Eyepatch of Power Epic Movie Scary Black Man Accidental Misnaming Neck Lift Casting Gag Visual Pun Heroes Want Redheads Japanese Films Drowning My Sorrows Self-Deprecation Accidental Murder Film Series Chekhov's Gun Psychopathic Manchild Shower Scene Villain Song Knife Nut Artistic License – Physics Bolivian Army Ending Pet the Dog Punny Name Only Sane Man Dying Moment of Awesome The Reveal Loads and Loads of Characters Dual Wielding Abhorrent Admirer Dirty Old Man Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Hollywood Darkness Ambiguous Disorder Parental Incest Flashback Took a Level in Jerkass Dark Action Girl Foil Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience No Antagonist Sequel Escalation Sexy Discretion Shot Camera Abuse Advertised Extra Happily Married Cat Fight I Need a Freaking Drink Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Five-Man Band Air-Vent Passageway Disappeared Dad The Musical Dark Reprise Epic Fail Christmas Movies Index Artistic License – Geography War Is Hell No Celebrities Were Harmed The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Grievous Bottley Harm Nothing Is Scarier No-Sell Mercy Kill Revenge Eldritch Abomination Attempted Rape 20 Minutes into the Future Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Animal Title Index Only Known by Their Nickname Big Eater Wretched Hive Romantic False Lead Obviously Evil Meaningful Background Event The '60s Beauty Is Never Tarnished Serious Business What You Are in the Dark The Mole Face–Heel Turn Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Not So Above It All Anachronic Order Destination Defenestration Rated M for Manly Amoral Attorney Refuge in Audacity Rich Bitch Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Drugs Are Bad Overprotective Dad Those Two Guys Evil vs. Evil Not Using the "Z" Word Did Not Get the Girl Shipper on Deck No OSHA Compliance Cluster F-Bomb Deus ex Machina Enemy Mine Face Death with Dignity Fire-Forged Friends Major Injury Underreaction As the Good Book Says... Scenery Gorn Rule of Funny Anyone Can Die The Stoic Police are Useless Vacation Films Drill Sergeant Nasty Martial Arts Movie Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Big Bad Up to Eleven Dirty Coward Large Ham Love at First Sight One-Word Title Humans Are Bastards Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Woman Scorned Not So Stoic Horror Comedy Fatal Flaw Sole Survivor Mooks From Nobody to Nightmare Curse Cut Short The Voiceless Science Fiction Films Hero of Another Story Adult Fear The Vamp Never My Fault Mistaken for Gay Mythology Gag The X of Y Storming the Castle Authority Equals Asskicking The '70s Kill It with Fire Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Tap on the Head The Power of Love Manic Pixie Dream Girl Chewing the Scenery Rewatch Bonus The '90s The Stoner Wrong Genre Savvy And the Adventure Continues Easily Forgiven The Chick Taking You with Me Men Are the Expendable Gender Big Fancy House Tempting Fate Never Found the Body Vampire Fiction Composite Character Not Even Bothering with the Accent Lighter and Softer Adaptational Attractiveness Bloody Hilarious Motor Mouth Idiot Ball Spell My Name with an "S" Grey and Gray Morality Stealth Pun Evil Sounds Deep Your Head A-Splode Missing Mom The Chessmaster Unwitting Instigator of Doom Abusive Parents The Hero Dies Whole Plot Reference Heroic Sacrifice Mugging the Monster Parental Substitute Demonic Possession All There in the Script It Will Never Catch On The Mafia Call-Forward Real Life Vomit Discretion Shot Arc Words Insane Troll Logic Take a Third Option timeperiod Chiaroscuro Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Expy Thriller Made of Explodium Rule of Symbolism