Tropescilloscope: Corrupt Corporate Executive
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Good Is Not Nice
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Didn't Think This Through
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Better to Die than Be Killed
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
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Not Even Bothering with the Accent
Would Hurt a Child
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Villain Song
Silence Is Golden
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Even Evil Has Standards
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
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Take That!
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
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Determinator
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Star-Crossed Lovers
Only Known by Their Nickname
Arch-Enemy
Shipper on Deck
Off with His Head!
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Pretty Little Headshots
Bring My Brown Pants
Yandere
Cat Fight
No Ending
Gone Horribly Right
Have a Gay Old Time
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
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This Is Gonna Suck
Scary Black Man
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And I Must Scream
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Crazy-Prepared
Bavarian Fire Drill
Manchild
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
The Smart Guy
You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!
Unresolved Sexual Tension
I Did What I Had to Do
Love at First Sight
Betty and Veronica
"Awesome McCool" Name
Psycho for Hire
Aluminum Christmas Trees
Vitriolic Best Buds
Apocalypse How
Meet Cute
One-Man Army
Green-Eyed Monster
Arranged Marriage
"Well Done, Son!" Guy
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Naked People Are Funny
Serious Business
Fan Disservice
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Neck Snap
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Reasonable Authority Figure
The Starscream
Big "NO!"
The Un-Favourite
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Mr. Exposition
Unusually Uninteresting Sight
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The Power of Love
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Villain Ball
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Not Quite Dead
Neck Lift
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20 Minutes into the Future
Historical Hero Upgrade
Hypocritical Humor
Translation Convention
Manly Tears
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!
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Alas, Poor Villain
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Fake Shemp
Happily Married
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Make It Look Like an Accident
All for Nothing
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Eldritch Abomination
Bond One-Liner
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Fun with Acronyms
Bait-and-Switch
My Beloved Smother
As the Good Book Says...
Manipulative Bastard
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Break the Haughty
Ominous Latin Chanting
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Black Comedy Rape
Creator Cameo
Hong Kong Films
Crucified Hero Shot
Aside Glance
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Properly Paranoid
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Poor Communication Kills
HeelFace Turn
Market-Based Title
What Happened to the Mouse?
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Calling the Old Man Out
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Show Within a Show
Mundane Made Awesome
Bilingual Bonus
Red Shirt
Sinister Minister
Unreliable Narrator
Mistaken for Gay
Funny Foreigner
Video Credits
All Men Are Perverts
Sir Swears-a-Lot
Dutch Angle
As Long as It Sounds Foreign
The '60s
Combat Pragmatist
Everyone Has Standards
Took a Level in Badass
Needs Wiki Magic Love
As You Know
The Chessmaster
The Un-Reveal
Disappeared Dad
Overprotective Dad
Dark and Troubled Past
Important Haircut
Boom, Headshot!
Married to the Job
Beta Couple
Trailers Always Spoil
The Alcoholic
Spell My Name with an "S"
Damsel in Distress
Rated M for Manly
Mythology Gag
Offscreen Moment of Awesome
Driven to Suicide
An Arm and a Leg
Throwing Your Sword Always Works
Framing Device
Composite Character
Line-of-Sight Name
Catapult Nightmare
Anachronic Order
Improbable Infant Survival
aka: Infant Immortality
Nothing Is Scarier
Cool Car
Big-Bad Ensemble
Evil Plan
Reality Is Unrealistic
Adaptation Name Change
Age Lift
Half the Man He Used to Be
Mugging the Monster
Toplessness from the Back
The Hero Dies
Outrun the Fireball
A God Am I
Wicked Cultured
Leave the Camera Running
The Cavalry
Destination Defenestration
MacGuffin
Not So Above It All
Eagleland
Artistic License Law
Same Language Dub
Parental Substitute
Historical Villain Upgrade
Posthumous Character
Man on Fire
The Hero
Never Found the Body
Taking You with Me
Running Gag
All Just a Dream
Sequel Hook
Mexican Standoff
A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Affectionate Parody
Heroes Want Redheads
My Greatest Failure
The Cameo
Crazy Jealous Guy
Informed Ability
Fate Worse than Death
Artistic License Military
Vacation Films
Made of Iron
Anti-Villain
Idiot Ball
Adaptation Expansion
Funny Background Event
Missing Mom
No OSHA Compliance
Fire-Forged Friends
Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
Deus ex Machina
Improbable Aiming Skills
Retirony
Heterosexual Life-Partners
Psychopathic Manchild
Title Drop
German Films
Dressing as the Enemy
Wounded Gazelle Gambit
Took a Level in Jerkass
Celebrity Paradox
Vomit Indiscretion Shot
Parental Incest
Hoist by His Own Petard
Fainting
Ironic Echo
Obstructive Bureaucrat
Those Two Bad Guys
Big Brother Instinct
The Smurfette Principle
Early-Bird Cameo
Grey and Gray Morality