Tropescilloscope: Crazy-Prepared

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