Tropescilloscope: Cool Guns

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Stalker with a Crush Dramatic Irony German Films Your Cheating Heart Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Early-Bird Cameo Camera Abuse Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Worthy Opponent Eiffel Tower Effect My Beloved Smother Manic Pixie Dream Girl Animal Motifs Sanity Slippage Genre Savvy Earn Your Happy Ending Domestic Abuse Big Damn Heroes Brutal Honesty Guile Hero Spared by the Adaptation Shout-Out Oh, Crap! Put on a Bus Tap on the Head The '90s Villain with Good Publicity Big Applesauce Australian Movies Wham Line Bavarian Fire Drill The Cavalry Film Series Wounded Gazelle Gambit Spiteful Spit Overly Long Gag Adaptational Villainy The Power of Love What Happened to the Mouse? 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An Arm and a Leg Tranquil Fury Market-Based Title Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Improvised Weapon Badass Boast The Dog Bites Back Recycled IN SPACE! Unusual Euphemism May–December Romance Off-into-the-Distance Ending Russian Films The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite A.I. Is a Crapshoot No Ending Bittersweet Ending Diabolus ex Machina Male Frontal Nudity Documentary NO INDOOR VOICE Car Fu The Voiceless Bare Your Midriff Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Slasher Movie Spiritual Successor Bowdlerise Naïve Newcomer Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Show Within a Show Action Survivor Maybe Ever After Brainless Beauty As Long as It Sounds Foreign Politically Incorrect Villain Tagline Important Haircut Demonic Possession Interrupted Suicide Neck Snap Bolivian Army Ending Adaptational Badass Boom, Headshot! Slasher Smile Easily Forgiven Mugging the Monster Pimped-Out Dress Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Wicked Cultured Scary Black Man A Date with Rosie Palms Never Found the Body Imagine Spot Too Dumb to Live The Hero La Résistance Abusive Parents The Stinger She's Got Legs Pay Evil unto Evil Improbable Weapon User Determinator aka: The Determinator Bloodless Carnage Very Loosely Based on a True Story Badass Bookworm Unreliable Narrator Title Drop Batman Gambit Corrupt Corporate Executive Abhorrent Admirer Japanese Films Antagonist Title No Good Deed Goes Unpunished "Shaggy Dog" Story Early Installment Weirdness Logo Joke Laser-Guided Karma Laughing Mad Failed a Spot Check Offscreen Moment of Awesome Paper-Thin Disguise Distracted by the Sexy One Steve Limit Even Evil Has Loved Ones Narrator Famous Last Words Faking the Dead Dwindling Party Dull Surprise Danny Peary Cult Movies List Scenery Gorn Revenge I'm a Humanitarian Hooker with a Heart of Gold In the Back What You Are in the Dark Kubrick Stare Manipulative Bastard Disproportionate Retribution Body Horror Butt-Monkey The Smurfette Principle Meaningful Name Five-Man Band Drugs Are Bad Zombie Stories Not So Different Grey and Gray Morality Well-Intentioned Extremist Those Two Bad Guys Re-Cut Every Car Is a Pinto An Axe to Grind Conspicuous CG Hollywood Darkness Continuity Nod Double Entendre Broken Pedestal Television Movie Index Irony