Tropescilloscope: Cool Guns

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Back from the Dead Defiant to the End German Films Drill Sergeant Nasty The '50s Biopic Heroic Sacrifice Heel Realization Jerkass Has a Point Author Appeal Important Haircut Humans Are Bastards Adaptational Attractiveness Recycled IN SPACE! Villain Protagonist Evil-Detecting Dog Cluster F-Bomb Police Brutality Framing Device Not So Different Bolivian Army Ending Bait-and-Switch Car Fu Dogged Nice Guy Mighty Whitey Brother–Sister Incest Reality Ensues Dual Wielding Superhero Enemy Mine Spanner in the Works Cassandra Truth Children Are Innocent Only a Flesh Wound You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Ghost Fiction Mr. Fanservice Nothing Is Scarier Combat Pragmatist MacGuffin Silence Is Golden Dirty Coward Becoming the Mask Chekhov's Gun Parental Neglect Sports Stories Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Rasputinian Death Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism The End... Or Is It? Author Avatar For the Evulz One-Man Army Bar Brawl Guile Hero Posthumous Character Suddenly SHOUTING! Auto Erotica Action Girl The Mafia Star-Crossed Lovers Crazy Jealous Guy Broken Pedestal Death by Sex Gorn No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Took a Level in Badass The Mole All There in the Script Off-into-the-Distance Ending Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Black Comedy Rape Hidden Depths Face–Heel Turn Instant Death Bullet He Who Fights Monsters Gainax Ending Deliberate Values Dissonance Obfuscating Stupidity Sassy Black Woman My God, What Have I Done? Meaningful Name Informed Ability Those Wacky Nazis Psychological Thriller Fainting Only One Name Parental Incest Vitriolic Best Buds Early Installment Weirdness Distracted by the Sexy Mood Whiplash Gilligan Cut Dwindling Party Every Car Is a Pinto Ass Shove Hollywood Law Badass Bookworm Rousing Speech Documentary The Brute Interrupted Suicide Artistic License – Biology Aside Glance Cool Old Lady Gold Digger Parental Abandonment A Date with Rosie Palms Darker and Edgier The Cavalry Homage Fanservice Extra Badass Normal Red Oni, Blue Oni Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Arranged Marriage Adults Are Useless Mr. Exposition Annoying Younger Sibling Amusing Injuries Evil Is Hammy Demonic Possession Aww, Look! 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Bond One-Liner Our Zombies Are Different Green-Eyed Monster Adaptational Heroism Gone Horribly Right Mama Bear Hero of Another Story The Vamp Pragmatic Adaptation Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor I Want My Beloved to Be Happy The '90s Card-Carrying Villain A Minor Kidroduction Disproportionate Retribution Villainous Breakdown Ironic Echo After the End What Happened to the Mouse? Coming-of-Age Story Eiffel Tower Effect The '60s Breaking the Fourth Wall Pretty Little Headshots Let's Get Dangerous! Once More, with Clarity! Catch-Phrase Politically Incorrect Villain All There in the Manual Pimped-Out Dress A Father to His Men Central Theme Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Dark and Troubled Past Bottomless Magazines Famous Last Words Curb-Stomp Battle Red Shirt Mythology Gag Deal with the Devil Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Took a Level in Jerkass As Long as It Sounds Foreign Fingore Taking You with Me Eureka Moment Same Language Dub Action Genre Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Shout-Out Reckless Gun Usage Bald of Evil Abusive Parents Fiery Redhead Dramatic Gun Cock Translation Convention Lighter and Softer Alpha Bitch Left the Background Music On Everyone Has Standards And I Must Scream The Ghost The Dog Bites Back Handicapped Badass Adaptational Villainy Man on Fire All Men Are Perverts Sci-Fi Horror Eyepatch of Power Russian Films Fire-Forged Friends This Is Gonna Suck Killed Mid-Sentence Blood Knight Rule of Symbolism Depraved Bisexual Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold "The Reason You Suck" Speech Friend to All Children Dutch Angle Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Half the Man He Used to Be Random Events Plot The Big Guy Overprotective Dad Offscreen Teleportation No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Exactly What It Says on the Tin Punny Name Ambiguous Disorder Greater-Scope Villain No Antagonist The Hero Dies Kick the Dog Disappeared Dad Leaning on the Fourth Wall Despair Event Horizon 20 Minutes into the Future Trailers Always Spoil Rich Bitch Jerkass Disney Death Red Herring Comically Missing the Point Failed a Spot Check Bland-Name Product Rule of Funny Narrator Fish out of Water Be Careful What You Wish For Gratuitous English Not What It Looks Like The Faceless Together in Death Accidental Murder Batman Gambit Male Gaze Bond Villain Stupidity Protagonist Title Adaptation Expansion Did Not Get the Girl Damsel in Distress Face Death with Dignity Kick the Son of a Bitch All for Nothing Tap on the Head Actor Allusion Adorkable Daylight Horror Australian Movies Riddle for the Ages Blackmail Hoist by His Own Petard The Power of Love Love at First Sight Thriller Mistaken for Gay Bad Boss All Girls Want Bad Boys Corrupt Corporate Executive Bavarian Fire 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Cowboy Cop Spell My Name with an "S" Evil Sounds Deep I'm a Humanitarian Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Dull Surprise Danny Peary Cult Movies List French Films As Himself Black Best Friend Defrosting Ice Queen Fanservice Shown Their Work Casting Gag You Killed My Father All Just a Dream Slashed Throat Cool Shades Those Two Guys Bad "Bad Acting" Rule of Cool Adaptation Dye-Job The Alcoholic Big Brother Instinct Film Series Bowdlerise Hollywood Darkness Getting Crap Past the Radar Film Noir Taking the Bullet The Musical Karma Houdini Loads and Loads of Characters Determinator aka: The Determinator Improvised Weapon Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Evil Laugh No Name Given Visual Pun In the Back Overly Long Gag Freeze-Frame Bonus Expository Hairstyle Change Even Evil Has Standards Shower Scene Serious Business Unusually Uninteresting Sight Eagleland Ship Tease Affably Evil Show Within a Show Even Evil Has Loved Ones Antagonist Title Meaningful Background Event Would Hurt a Child Captain Obvious Ascended Extra Expy Video Credits It Will Never Catch On Vampire Fiction Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Missing Mom Made of Iron Bound and Gagged Malevolent Masked Men Redshirt Army It's Personal Fatal Flaw Market-Based Title Only Known by Their Nickname Bare Your Midriff Very Loosely Based on a True Story Epic Fail Too Dumb to Live Match Cut Break the Cutie Death by Adaptation Stealth Hi/Bye Action Survivor Real Life Downer Ending The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Big Damn Heroes World of Ham Mercy Kill The Un-Reveal And the Adventure Continues An Aesop Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Not Quite Dead Undying Loyalty Science Fiction Films Hooker with a Heart of Gold Department of Redundancy Department Victoria's Secret Compartment Jerk Jock Artistic License – Military Red Right Hand She's Got Legs Oh, Crap! Foreshadowing Slasher Movie Gender Flip The Lancer Big Bad Duumvirate Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Well-Intentioned Extremist Meet Cute Bunny-Ears Lawyer Big-Bad Ensemble The '80s Black Comedy Works Set in World War II No-Sell The Stoic Improbable Weapon User Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Camp Gay Final Girl Vomit Indiscretion Shot Air-Vent Passageway Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Shoot the Shaggy Dog Manic Pixie Dream Girl Femme Fatale Product Placement Pay Evil unto Evil Your Head A-Splode Due to the Dead O.O.C. Is Serious Business I Did What I Had to Do Reasonable Authority Figure Woman Scorned Villain Song Drugs Are Bad Unspoken Plan Guarantee NO INDOOR VOICE Sequel Escalation Insult Backfire Red Eyes, Take Warning Sole Survivor Wicked Cultured The Cameo Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Intergenerational Friendship Sexy Discretion Shot Badass in a Nice Suit Cloudcuckoolander Character Development Italian Films Heel–Face Turn Karmic Death Unresolved Sexual Tension Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Up to Eleven Word of God Really Gets Around Have a Gay Old Time Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Double-Meaning Title Not So Stoic Deliberately Monochrome Papa Wolf I Need a Freaking Drink "Shaggy Dog" Story Wham Shot Exact Words Berserk Button Genre Throwback Bittersweet Ending What the Hell, Hero? Destination Defenestration Dies Wide Open You Have Failed Me Developing Doomed Characters Rewatch Bonus Dirty Cop Sadistic Choice Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Dressing as the Enemy Intrepid Reporter Genre Savvy Adaptation Name Change The Bully Zombie Stories Romantic Comedy Playing Gertrude Idiot Ball Ambiguous Ending Arc Words Offscreen Moment of Awesome Never Trust a Trailer Animal Title Index Henpecked Husband Logo Joke A.I. Is a Crapshoot Skewed Priorities Immune to Bullets Adaptation Distillation Made of Explodium Cool Old Guy My Greatest Failure "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Double Entendre Frame-Up Training Montage Driven to Suicide He Knows Too Much Lock and Load Montage Heroes Want Redheads An Axe to Grind The Remake Attempted Rape Line-of-Sight Name Almost Kiss Meaningful Echo Alas, Poor Villain Tranquil Fury Romantic False Lead Take a Third Option Calling the Old Man Out Asshole Victim Brick Joke Sinister Minister Bloodless Carnage Faking the Dead One-Word Title Book-Ends Anachronic Order Bloodier and Gorier Imagine Spot Country Matters Leave the Camera Running Does This Remind You of Anything? Never My Fault Dark Is Not Evil Foregone Conclusion Sequel Hook Wrong Genre Savvy Revenge Agony of the Feet Twist Ending Kubrick Stare Foil Animated Credits Opening Loophole Abuse Scare Chord Title Drop Costume Porn Put on a Bus Villain with Good Publicity Mugging the Monster Laughing Mad True Companions Canadian Movies Psycho for Hire Evil Brit Anguished Declaration of Love Betty and Veronica Race Against the Clock Properly Paranoid Pet the Dog Pretty in Mink The Atoner Bi the Way Eye Scream Artistic License – Law Dirty Old Man Knight Templar As the Good Book Says... Armor-Piercing Question Crazy-Prepared Break the Haughty No Celebrities Were Harmed Brainless Beauty Men Are the Expendable Gender Manly Tears Stepford Smiler Dumb Blonde Fourth Date Marriage Stealth Pun Bloody Hilarious Captain Ersatz Call-Back Reality Has No Subtitles Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Stuff Blowing Up Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Motor Mouth An Arm and a Leg Would Hit a Girl Insistent Terminology Bilingual Bonus Blatant Lies Daddy's Girl Establishing Character Moment Male Frontal Nudity Throwing Your Sword Always Works Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas The Sociopath Kill 'em All Jerk with a Heart of Gold The Chessmaster "Well Done, Son!" Guy Large Ham Actually Pretty Funny It's All About Me Beta Couple Off with His Head! Kill It with Fire Not Even Bothering with the Accent Straight Gay Butt-Monkey What You Are in the Dark Refuge in Audacity Wham Line The Voiceless Awesome, but Impractical Continuity Nod Ominous Latin Chanting Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Anachronism Stew Stock Footage folderlabel Small Name, Big Ego The Oner Self-Deprecation Body Horror Here We Go Again! Take That! Retcon Adult Fear Corpsing Fantasy Films Tagline Canon Foreigner Disguised in Drag Vacation Films Epic Movie Curse Cut Short The Casanova Crapsack World Jump Scare Novelization Didn't Think This Through Our Vampires Are Different Four-Temperament Ensemble Affectionate Parody Peek-a-Boo Corpse Disney Villain Death Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Ms. Fanservice Pre-Mortem One-Liner Retired Badass The Alleged Car Monumental Damage Heroic BSoD timeperiod Knife Nut Big Applesauce Plot Hole Cold-Blooded Torture Historical Villain Upgrade Wretched Hive Only in It for the Money Nice Guy Good Is Not Nice Broken Aesop Index of Film Westerns Early-Bird Cameo Kids Are Cruel Whole Plot Reference Mundane Made Awesome Groin Attack Beauty Is Never Tarnished Conspicuous CG Big Fancy House A God Am I The Ace Celebrity Paradox Composite Character The Quiet One Pragmatic Villainy More Dakka Drives Like Crazy Older Than They Look Running Gag Boom, Headshot! Does Not Like Shoes Gory Discretion Shot The Bad Guy Wins Soundtrack Dissonance Funny Foreigner Toplessness from the Back Totally Radical Anti-Hero Rape as Drama She Cleans Up Nicely Creative Closing Credits As You Know Eldritch Abomination Anti-Villain Sir Swears-a-Lot Deconstruction Storming the Castle Roaring Rampage of Revenge Brutal Honesty Unusual Euphemism Big Eater Cat Fight Poor Communication Kills Scenery Porn B-Movie Implacable Man Chekhov's Gunman Grey and Gray Morality Chewing the Scenery Neck Snap Artistic License – Physics Beard of Evil Badass Longcoat Artistic License – Gun Safety Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Re-Cut Drowning My Sorrows Dark Reprise Get Out! Flashback Manipulative Bastard Catapult Nightmare Martial Arts Movie Fun with Acronyms There Is No Kill Like Overkill Artistic License – Geography Neck Lift Manchild Leitmotif Funny Background Event Major Injury Underreaction Dark Action Girl Diabolus ex Machina Wounded Gazelle Gambit Guns Akimbo Arch-Enemy