Tropescilloscope: Crapsack World

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