Tropescilloscope: Corpsing

Cracking up while trying to keep a straight face. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Epilogue Evil Counterpart Rich Bitch Age Lift Dramatic Gun Cock Exact Words B-Movie Christmas Movies Index Manly Tears Heroic Sacrifice Stock Footage Spared by the Adaptation Sexy Discretion Shot Gilligan Cut Red Right Hand Sadistic Choice Attempted Rape Plot Hole Leave the Camera Running folderlabel Cool Car Ironic Echo Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Stealth Hi/Bye It's All About Me The Sociopath Aluminum Christmas Trees Catapult Nightmare Evil Brit The Cavalry Cruel and Unusual Death Took a Level in Jerkass Light Is Not Good Needs Wiki Magic Love The Reveal Honor Before Reason Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie You Killed My Father Action Genre Cat Fight Adapted Out Loads and Loads of Characters Determinator Police Brutality Bloodless Carnage Everyone Has Standards Historical Villain Upgrade Tagline Papa Wolf Novelization The Ace Canon Foreigner Brainless Beauty The Lancer Dark and Troubled Past Historical In-Joke Asshole Victim Tranquil Fury Naked People Are Funny Call-Forward Greater-Scope Villain This Is Gonna Suck Disney Death Made of Explodium Face–Heel Turn Brutal Honesty Large Ham Disney Villain Death Italian Films Evil Sounds Deep Driven to Suicide Redshirt Army Maybe Ever After Smug Snake Bavarian Fire Drill Bury Your Gays Central Theme Killed Mid-Sentence Manipulative Bastard The Bully In Name Only Agony of the Feet Playing Gertrude Dutch Angle Composite Character Ax-Crazy Cain and Abel Curb-Stomp Battle May–December Romance Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Superhero Worthy Opponent Shut Up, Hannibal! Leitmotif What the Hell, Hero? Immune to Bullets Ship Tease Knight Templar Logo Joke Show Within a Show What Happened to the Mouse? Neck Snap Whole Plot Reference MacGuffin Jerkass Has a Point Dropped a Bridge on Him Ascended Extra Rule of Cool Once More, with Clarity! Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping I Did What I Had to Do Drowning My Sorrows Advertised Extra Off with His Head! Took a Level in Badass One-Word Title Betty and Veronica There Is No Kill Like Overkill Reality Has No Subtitles Getting Crap Past the Radar Domestic Abuse As Long as It Sounds Foreign Pyrrhic Victory Race Against the Clock Karma Houdini Frame-Up It Will Never Catch On Villain with Good Publicity Cassandra Truth Adaptational Heroism Anachronic Order Kick the Son of a Bitch Adaptational Villainy Not Using the "Z" Word Yandere Camera Abuse Red Shirt Groin Attack Manchild From Bad to Worse Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Wounded Gazelle Gambit And the Adventure Continues Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Bond Villain Stupidity Ripped from the Headlines Bi the Way Would Hit a Girl Unspoken Plan Guarantee Fake Shemp BFG Time Skip Mythology Gag Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Chiaroscuro Video Credits Make It Look Like an Accident Hypocritical Humor Up to Eleven Action Prologue Card-Carrying Villain Romantic Comedy Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Reasonable Authority Figure Blackmail Hooker with a Heart of Gold Almost Kiss Adaptational Badass Sir Swears-a-Lot Real Life Writes the Plot Did Not Get the Girl Corrupt Corporate Executive Death by Irony Even Evil Has Loved Ones Red Eyes, Take Warning Heel Realization Hidden Depths Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Disappeared Dad What You Are in the Dark No Name Given Cool Guns Dissonant Serenity Good Is Not Nice Kubrick Stare Meet Cute Dies Wide Open Straight Gay Peek-a-Boo Corpse Genre Throwback Bowdlerise German Films Deconstruction Curse Cut Short Nice Hat The Vamp Market-Based Title Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Love at First Sight Those Two Bad Guys Race Lift Downer Ending Together in Death Unusually Uninteresting Sight Wham Shot True Companions The Ghost Hate Sink Heel–Face Turn The '70s Dark Reprise Undying Loyalty All Just a Dream Slap-Slap-Kiss Silence Is Golden Meaningful Background Event Apocalypse How Due to the Dead Sci-Fi Horror Motor Mouth Villain Protagonist Chase Scene Decoy Protagonist Rule of Symbolism For the Evulz Shower Scene Femme Fatale Big-Bad Ensemble Villainous Breakdown Closed Circle Only One Name Cowboy Cop N-Word Privileges Self-Deprecation Eureka Moment Early Installment Weirdness In Medias Res Jerkass Never Found the Body Documentary Leaning on the Fourth Wall Black Best Friend Suddenly SHOUTING! I Have Your Wife Continuity Nod Overprotective Dad Science Fiction Films Setting Update Eiffel Tower Effect Hollywood Law Imagine Spot Film Series No Ending Chekhov's Gunman Chewing the Scenery Mercy Kill Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Running Gag Break the Cutie Accidental Murder Berserk Button Air-Vent Passageway Ambiguous Disorder Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Zombie Stories Humiliation Conga Stalker with a Crush Genre Shift Jerk with a Heart of Gold Author Appeal Vomit Indiscretion Shot Expository Hairstyle Change "Well Done, Son!" Guy Ungrateful Bastard Evil vs. Evil Pragmatic Villainy Pre-Mortem One-Liner The Faceless Mr. Exposition The Stinger All Girls Want Bad Boys Drill Sergeant Nasty Sports Stories Training Montage Alas, Poor Villain Hypocrite Insult Backfire Obfuscating Stupidity Precision F-Strike Fiery Redhead Heroic BSoD Kill 'em All Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Skewed Priorities I'm a Humanitarian Beard of Evil Pretty Little Headshots Aside Glance Conspicuous CG The Big Guy Bad "Bad Acting" Well-Intentioned Extremist Random Events Plot Riddle for the Ages Daylight Horror Serious Business Fun with Acronyms Non-Indicative Name Moment Killer Every Car Is a Pinto Missing Mom Gratuitous English The '90s Mighty Whitey Alliterative Name The Great Depression No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Big Brother Instinct Disguised in Drag The Stoic Comically Missing the Point Thriller Foreshadowing Henpecked Husband Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Gory Discretion Shot Major Injury Underreaction Not So Stoic Shoot the Shaggy Dog Brother–Sister Incest Big Bad Hollywood Darkness Death by Sex Adaptational Attractiveness Russian Films Sinister Minister Artistic License – History Shout-Out Serial Killer British Films Romantic False Lead Hair-Trigger Temper Bottomless Magazines All There in the Manual Token Minority Defiant to the End Last-Name Basis Dressing as the Enemy Demoted to Extra The Brute Big Bad Duumvirate Hero Antagonist Parental Neglect Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Country Matters Award-Bait Song Babies Ever After Actually Pretty Funny Improbable Aiming Skills How We Got Here Badass Longcoat Not So Different The Cameo Flipping the Bird Kids Are Cruel Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Television Movie Index Nothing Is Scarier Scare Chord Jump Scare Action Girl Obviously Evil Fatal Family Photo Blood Knight Disproportionate Retribution Bait-and-Switch A Date with Rosie Palms Scary Black Man Bring My Brown Pants An Arm and a Leg Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Pretty in Mink Off-into-the-Distance Ending Distracted by the Sexy Sole Survivor Karmic Death Based on a True Story Older Than They Look Villain Opening Scene Bunny-Ears Lawyer Evil Plan Narrator Enemy Mine Adaptation Expansion Not What It Looks Like Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Villain Ball Jitter Cam And Starring Crazy-Prepared Cool Old Lady Taking You with Me Slasher Smile Psychological Thriller Australian Movies Your Head A-Splode Parental Incest Big "NO!" Damsel in Distress Diabolus ex Machina Butt-Monkey Parental Abandonment Deadpan Snarker Eagleland Police are Useless Bond One-Liner Scenery Gorn Idiot Ball Properly Paranoid Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Boom, Headshot! Unreliable Narrator Adaptation Name Change Works Set in World War II Hero of Another Story Flashback Slasher Movie Poor Communication Kills Adaptation Distillation Breaking the Fourth Wall Creepy Child Genre Savvy Exactly What It Says on the Tin Really Gets Around The Mole Demonic Possession I Just Shot Marvin in the Face You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Instant Death Bullet Four-Temperament Ensemble Framing Device Double-Meaning Title You Have Failed Me Death by Adaptation Villain Song No OSHA Compliance Big Fancy House Lampshade Hanging Dirty Coward Artistic License – Gun Safety Auto Erotica More Dakka Mood Whiplash Foregone Conclusion Batman Gambit Broken Bird Alpha Bitch Mexican Standoff Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass The Quiet One Break the Haughty Costume Porn Arc Words The Chick Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Spell My Name with an "S" The Un-Reveal Call-Back Chekhov's Skill Not So Above It All The Hero Dies "Shaggy Dog" Story Implacable Man Deliberately Monochrome Belligerent Sexual Tension Crapsack World Epic Fail Deliberate Values Dissonance The Musical Loophole Abuse Children Are Innocent Only Known by Their Nickname Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Epic Movie Abhorrent Admirer Knife Nut Rewatch Bonus Take a Third Option Despair Event Horizon Arch-Enemy A.I. Is a Crapshoot Deal with the Devil Line-of-Sight Name Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Kick the Dog timeperiod Drives Like Crazy Improvised Weapon Adult Fear The Hero Men Are the Expendable Gender Irony Grievous Bottley Harm Vampire Fiction Ambiguous Ending Word of God Blood from the Mouth Guile Hero Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Obstructive Bureaucrat Laughing Mad The '60s Dying Moment of Awesome Names to Run Away from Really Fast Throwing Your Sword Always Works Reality Is Unrealistic Plucky Comic Relief Morality Pet Becoming the Mask Deus ex Machina Our Zombies Are Different Spiteful Spit Red Herring It's Personal The Smurfette Principle Oh, Crap! Facial Horror Retcon Woman Scorned As You Know Nice Guy Taking the Bullet Grey and Gray Morality As Himself An Aesop Defrosting Ice Queen Paper-Thin Disguise Fainting Badass Boast Pragmatic Adaptation Re-Cut No-Sell Gainax Ending An Axe to Grind Rule of Funny Noodle Incident Sealed Evil in a Can Black and Gray Morality Broken Aesop The Atoner Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Rasputinian Death Establishing Character Moment Mystery and Detective Films Awesome, but Impractical Credits Gag Cool Shades Soundtrack Dissonance Malevolent Masked Men Darkest Hour You Have Outlived Your Usefulness After the End Never Trust a Trailer Recycled IN SPACE! Important Haircut Historical Hero Upgrade Mugging the Monster A Minor Kidroduction Trailers Always Spoil Evil Is Hammy Punch-Clock Villain Wham Line Badass in a Nice Suit Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Anguished Declaration of Love Captain Ersatz Anti-Villain Intergenerational Friendship Shell-Shocked Veteran O.O.C. Is Serious Business Would Hurt a Child Male Gaze Fatal Flaw Madness Mantra Neck Lift He Knows Too Much Ms. Fanservice Death Glare The Casanova Corpsing Foil Interrupted Suicide Shown Their Work Affectionate Parody Depraved Bisexual Car Fu Cool Old Guy Evil-Detecting Dog Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Creator Cameo Amusing Injuries Artistic License – Geography Early-Bird Cameo Totally Radical All There in the Script Fat Bastard Hell Is That Noise Antagonist Title Never My Fault Calling the Old Man Out Visual Pun Small Name, Big Ego Final Girl Earn Your Happy Ending Get Out! Extreme Doormat Ominous Latin Chanting Film Noir Animated Credits Opening Five-Man Band Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Book-Ends Left the Background Music On Big Damn Heroes Wicked Cultured Better to Die than Be Killed Contrived Coincidence Gone Horribly Right Rated M for Manly Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Insane Troll Logic All for Nothing All Men Are Perverts Lighter and Softer Martial Arts Movie Vomit Discretion Shot Arranged Marriage The Stoner Product Placement Vitriolic Best Buds Destination Defenestration Film Noir Index Action Survivor Sequel Escalation Death Seeker Bittersweet Ending Actor Allusion Rule of Three Gold Digger Dumb Blonde Pay Evil unto Evil Sacrificial Lion Those Wacky Nazis Cloudcuckoolander Informed Ability Does This Remind You of Anything? Empathic Environment Only Sane Man Bound and Gagged Determinator aka: The Determinator Combat Pragmatist Abusive Parents Covers Always Lie Fire-Forged Friends The Remake Faux Affably Evil Suspiciously Specific Denial Be Careful What You Wish For Drugs Are Bad Camp Gay Punny Name Faking the Dead Canadian Movies Translation Convention Mad Scientist Vacation Films The Mafia Rousing Speech Didn't Think This Through Guns Akimbo The Power of Love Psychopathic Manchild Gorn The Film of the Book Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Lock and Load Montage Artistic License – Physics Amoral Attorney Easily Forgiven Dual Wielding Bald of Evil Girl-on-Girl Is Hot The Dog Bites Back The '50s Horror Comedy Politically Incorrect Villain Freeze-Frame Bonus Coming-of-Age Story NO INDOOR VOICE Real Life Let's Get Dangerous! Artistic License – Law The Dreaded Green-Eyed Monster Annoying Younger Sibling Man on Fire Bilingual Bonus Bare Your Midriff A God Am I Evil Laugh World of Ham Insistent Terminology The Dragon Double Entendre Anachronism Stew Dull Surprise Fate Worse than Death Bad Boss French Films No Celebrities Were Harmed '80s Hair Authority Equals Asskicking Sassy Black Woman Refuge in Audacity Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Big Applesauce Friend to All Children The Lost Lenore Put on a Bus Chekhov's Gun Mundane Made Awesome Extremely Short Timespan Unresolved Sexual Tension Spiritual Successor Meaningful Echo Say My Name Parental Substitute Evil Is Petty Stealth Pun Tap on the Head Adults Are Useless Animal Motifs Heterosexual Life-Partners Public Domain Feature Films Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Toplessness from the Back It Can Think Monumental Damage Daddy's Girl Animal Title Index One Steve Limit Dramatic Irony Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Blatant Lies La Résistance Expy Fingore In the Back Pet the Dog Funny Foreigner She Cleans Up Nicely Meaningful Name Dark Action Girl Horror Films Military and Warfare Films The '80s The End... Or Is It? Stepford Smiler And I Must Scream Soft Glass Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Truth in Television Darker and Edgier Ass Shove Made of Iron The Load Very Loosely Based on a True Story Dramedy Humans Are Bastards Shirtless Scene Wrong Genre Savvy I Need a Freaking Drink Reality Ensues Broken Pedestal Scenery Porn Crazy Jealous Guy Famous Last Words Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Reckless Gun Usage Male Frontal Nudity Victoria's Secret Compartment Mr. Fanservice Room Full of Crazy Red Oni, Blue Oni Cluster F-Bomb Offscreen Teleportation The Alcoholic Too Dumb to Live Retired Badass Overly Long Gag Fan Disservice Title Drop Anyone Can Die Funny Background Event 20 Minutes into the Future Bolivian Army Ending Black Comedy Rape The Chessmaster Have a Gay Old Time The Ditz Suspiciously Similar Substitute Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Roaring Rampage of Revenge He Who Fights Monsters Bullying a Dragon Bland-Name Product Gender Flip Storming the Castle Here We Go Again! The Bad Guy Wins Mistaken for Gay Mooks Does Not Like Shoes Mama Bear Black Dude Dies First Freudian Excuse Your Cheating Heart Back from the Dead Sanity Slippage My Greatest Failure The Smart Guy Brick Joke Eye Scream Fantasy Films The Oner Eyepatch of Power Unwitting Instigator of Doom Music Stories Pimped-Out Dress Character Development Posthumous Character Take That! Adorkable Redemption Equals Death Black Comedy Badass Grandpa Dwindling Party Super Strength "The Reason You Suck" Speech Silent Movie Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Heroes Want Redheads Only a Flesh Wound As the Good Book Says... Married to the Job Happily Married Fanservice One-Man Army Dirty Cop Face Death with Dignity The Place Badass Bookworm Hope Spot I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Outrun the Fireball Badass Normal Accidental Misnaming Artistic License – Biology Not Quite Dead Stylistic Suck Historical-Domain Character Match Cut Those Two Guys Rape as Drama Big Eater War Is Hell Cat Scare Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Half the Man He Used to Be My Beloved Smother She's Got Legs Kill It with Fire Department of Redundancy Department Psycho for Hire Homage Spanner in the Works Index of Film Westerns Protagonist Title Slashed Throat Hong Kong Films Developing Doomed Characters Retirony Twist Ending The X of Y Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Bloodier and Gorier My God, What Have I Done? Dogged Nice Guy Affably Evil Ambiguously Gay Catch-Phrase A Father to His Men Creative Closing Credits Our Vampires Are Different Hoist by His Own Petard Artistic License – Military Casting Gag No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Jerk Jock "Awesome McCool" Name Improbable Weapon User Fantastic Racism Beauty Is Never Tarnished Manic Pixie Dream Girl Even Evil Has Standards Adaptation Dye-Job Beware the Nice Ones Tempting Fate The Voiceless Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Crucified Hero Shot Only in It for the Money Cold-Blooded Torture Stuff Blowing Up Anti-Hero Same Language Dub Fourth Date Marriage Fish out of Water Failed a Spot Check Beta Couple