Tropescilloscope: Crazy-Prepared

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Bilingual Bonus MacGuffin Knight Templar Dark Action Girl Hypocritical Humor Our Zombies Are Different Pimped-Out Dress Book-Ends Hidden Depths Becoming the Mask Bowdlerise Death by Irony Video Credits Dies Wide Open Noodle Incident Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Artistic License – Law Stylistic Suck Scenery Gorn Double Entendre Exactly What It Says on the Tin Even Evil Has Loved Ones Dwindling Party The Starscream Market-Based Title Arc Words Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Sole Survivor Gory Discretion Shot Romantic False Lead Scare Chord The Lancer A God Am I Time Skip Freeze-Frame Bonus Anachronic Order Mundane Made Awesome Captain Ersatz Dirty Cop Big Bad Duumvirate Anachronism Stew Historical In-Joke Dirty Coward Bavarian Fire Drill Kill 'em All Parental Substitute Eiffel Tower Effect The Lost Lenore Cowboy Cop Only One Name Flashback Straight Gay Canon Foreigner Berserk Button Dramedy Henpecked Husband Lighter and Softer Does Not Like Shoes The Atoner Biopic Accidental Misnaming I Did What I Had to Do Bond Villain Stupidity Anguished Declaration of Love Kill It with Fire Dissonant Serenity Jerkass Has a Point Cat Scare Evil Is Petty Not Using the "Z" Word Alas, Poor Villain Heroic Sacrifice Jerk with a Heart of Gold folderlabel Darker and Edgier Word of God Undying Loyalty Even Evil Has Standards Composite Character What You Are in the Dark Race Against the Clock Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Dropped a Bridge on Him Taking You with Me Beware the Nice Ones Ambiguous Disorder Didn't Think This Through The Chessmaster Beard of Evil Shout-Out Adaptational Badass Gender Flip One-Man Army From Bad to Worse Hollywood Darkness Black and Gray Morality Arch-Enemy Victoria's Secret Compartment Kubrick Stare Contrived Coincidence Aside Glance Black Best Friend Totally Radical And I Must Scream Your Cheating Heart Adapted Out Black Comedy Rape Poor Communication Kills The Smart Guy Evil Is Hammy Heel–Face Turn In Name Only Daylight Horror Married to the Job Blood Knight Fatal Flaw Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Vampire Fiction BFG Exact Words Mooks Taking the Bullet Bitch in Sheep's Clothing War Is Hell Nice Guy Unresolved Sexual Tension Malevolent Masked Men Gainax Ending Fatal Family Photo Disney Death Protagonist Title Wicked Cultured Evil Counterpart Dull Surprise Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Unusually Uninteresting Sight Break the Cutie Real Life Writes the Plot Credits Gag Fan Disservice Gratuitous English Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique There Is No Kill Like Overkill Hollywood Law Only in It for the Money Jerk Jock Fiery Redhead A.I. Is a Crapshoot Damsel in Distress Pet the Dog Rape as Drama Off with His Head! Enemy Mine The Oner Lampshade Hanging Serious Business Not So Above It All Adaptational Attractiveness "Shaggy Dog" Story Suspiciously Specific Denial Spiteful Spit Big Bad Captain Obvious Bare Your Midriff Deal with the Devil Shipper on Deck Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Hell Is That Noise Rule of Symbolism As You Know Ship Tease Let's Get Dangerous! Badass Longcoat Names to Run Away from Really Fast Russian Films Idiot Ball Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Manchild It Can Think Artistic License – Biology Bottomless Magazines Fantastic Racism Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Badass Boast Unusual Euphemism Oh, Crap! 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Is Serious Business Red Right Hand Stealth Pun Mr. Fanservice Better to Die than Be Killed Animated Credits Opening Slashed Throat Ambiguously Gay Badass Normal Pre-Mortem One-Liner Insult Backfire Blatant Lies Neck Lift Continuity Nod Bar Brawl Affably Evil Last-Name Basis Missing Mom Creative Closing Credits Your Head A-Splode Fanservice Made of Iron Auto Erotica All There in the Manual All for Nothing Corrupt Corporate Executive World of Ham Animal Title Index Crucified Hero Shot Christmas Movies Index Adaptation Distillation Cool Guns Chekhov's Gunman Suspiciously Similar Substitute French Films Rule of Three Punny Name Domestic Abuse Vomit Indiscretion Shot Ghost Fiction Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Establishing Character Moment Canadian Movies After the End Punch-Clock Villain Big Fancy House Bullying a Dragon Major Injury Underreaction "Well Done, Son!" 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Conspicuous CG Red Herring Abhorrent Admirer Retirony Wrong Genre Savvy Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Offscreen Teleportation The Mafia 20 Minutes into the Future Obstructive Bureaucrat Mistaken for Gay Dramatic Irony He Knows Too Much Reality Has No Subtitles Grey and Gray Morality I Need a Freaking Drink Improbable Weapon User Naïve Newcomer Demonic Possession Not Quite Dead I Have Your Wife The Un-Reveal Older Than They Look Casting Gag Broken Bird Mighty Whitey Sequel Hook Spell My Name with an "S" Riddle for the Ages Mystery and Detective Films Dumb Blonde Love at First Sight Everyone Has Standards Film Noir Catch-Phrase Product Placement Super Strength Left the Background Music On Sci-Fi Horror Badass Bookworm Brainless Beauty Beta Couple Genre Shift The Ghost Adaptational Heroism I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Smoking Is Cool Dogged Nice Guy Epic Movie As Himself The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Freudian Excuse Dutch Angle Unreliable Narrator Kick the Dog No-Sell Face Death with Dignity Trailers Always Spoil