Tropescilloscope: Creator Cameo

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Nice Guy Put on a Bus The '60s Red Herring Wham Line After the End Camera Abuse No-Sell Oh, Crap! Silent Movie Let's Get Dangerous! Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Spiteful Spit Leaning on the Fourth Wall Loophole Abuse Dark Reprise Serious Business All Girls Want Bad Boys The Reveal Insane Troll Logic Evil Is Hammy Corpsing Arc Words Only a Flesh Wound Bald of Evil Berserk Button Only One Name Meaningful Echo Throwing Your Sword Always Works Jerkass Has a Point The '80s The Mole It Can Think Soft Glass A Date with Rosie Palms Beta Couple Villain Opening Scene Freeze-Frame Bonus Anti-Villain Country Matters Hero Antagonist Informed Ability Back from the Dead Very Loosely Based on a True Story You Killed My Father Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Fiery Redhead Works Set in World War II Disappeared Dad Heroic Sacrifice Scenery Gorn Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Reality Ensues Reckless Gun Usage Action Survivor Alliterative Name All for Nothing Retcon Gorn Final Girl Japanese Films Psychological Thriller Sanity Slippage Same Language Dub Grey and Gray Morality Spanner in the Works Break the Haughty Cain and Abel Wounded Gazelle Gambit One-Word Title Naked People Are Funny Psycho for Hire Up to Eleven Plucky Comic Relief Woman Scorned No Ending Funny Foreigner Pretty in Mink Obfuscating Stupidity Insult Backfire Pragmatic Adaptation Kick the Dog The Dog Bites Back And the Adventure Continues Video Credits Damsel in Distress Crazy Jealous Guy Action Prologue Aluminum Christmas Trees The Cameo Logo Joke Karma Houdini Broken Pedestal Accidental Misnaming Meaningful Name Fat Bastard Pimped-Out Dress Eureka Moment Skewed Priorities Determinator aka: The Determinator Russian Films No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Jump Scare The Mafia I Have Your Wife Daddy's Girl Happily Married Film Series Big Applesauce Demoted to Extra Covers Always Lie The Lancer Deliberate Values Dissonance Brother–Sister Incest Unspoken Plan Guarantee Continuity Nod The Oner Whole Plot Reference Brick Joke A Minor Kidroduction Ax-Crazy Gone Horribly Right Black Dude Dies First Curse Cut Short Children Are Innocent Kill It with Fire Sole Survivor Big "NO!" 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Camp Gay Improvised Weapon Hidden Depths Rule of Cool Dirty Old Man Our Zombies Are Different For Want of a Nail Retired Badass Adapted Out Hate Sink She Cleans Up Nicely Affably Evil Together in Death Framing Device Death by Adaptation Celebrity Paradox Evil Is Petty Not So Stoic Comically Missing the Point Australian Movies Gory Discretion Shot Red Shirt Parental Substitute Character Development Line-of-Sight Name Big Eater Death Seeker The Vamp Scary Black Man Serial Killer Sequel Escalation Crapsack World Smoking Is Cool Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Fate Worse than Death Animal Motifs Evil Plan Our Vampires Are Different Shut Up, Hannibal! Ugly Guy, Hot Wife For the Evulz Epic Fail Actor Allusion Sassy Black Woman Diabolus ex Machina Stepford Smiler Big Bad Villain Protagonist Tap on the Head Epic Movie Manipulative Bastard The Bad Guy Wins Freudian Excuse Bar Brawl Drill Sergeant Nasty Crazy-Prepared "Awesome McCool" Name The Smart Guy Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Never Trust a Trailer Wretched Hive More Dakka Names to Run Away from Really Fast Blood Knight Book-Ends The Alleged Car Ambiguous Ending Black and Gray Morality The Alcoholic A Father to His Men Black Comedy Does This Remind You of Anything? Mooks Stuff Blowing Up Mighty Whitey Deus ex Machina Bunny-Ears Lawyer The Stoic Creator Cameo Shown Their Work Bare Your Midriff Dual Wielding Butt-Monkey Wham Shot The Film of the Book Sports Stories Arch-Enemy It Will Never Catch On Screw the Rules, I Have Money! I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Say My Name "Shaggy Dog" Story Public Domain Feature Films Rule of Funny Parental Incest Death by Sex Dark Action Girl Based on a True Story Cassandra Truth '80s Hair Vomit Indiscretion Shot Shipper on Deck Defiant to the End Male Gaze You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Bilingual Bonus In the Back Missing Mom Ship Tease Foil Bad Boss Brainless Beauty Made of Explodium Taking the Bullet Slashed Throat Fingore Improbable Aiming Skills Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Downer Ending Gilligan Cut Bad "Bad Acting" Cool Old Guy Shower Scene Facial Horror Sci-Fi Horror Film Noir Creepy Child Big Bad Duumvirate Refuge in Audacity Captain Ersatz Hell Is That Noise Four-Temperament Ensemble Narrator Crucified Hero Shot Horror Films Real Life Writes the Plot Last-Name Basis Deliberately Monochrome Not Even Bothering with the Accent Demonic Possession He Who Fights Monsters Killed Mid-Sentence Villain with Good Publicity Meaningful Background Event Empathic Environment Dramatic Irony I Did What I Had to Do Lighter and Softer Captain Obvious Older Than They Look Cowboy Cop Shoot the Shaggy Dog Death of a Child Improbable Weapon User Jerkass MacGuffin Victoria's Secret Compartment Double Entendre Card-Carrying Villain Hollywood Darkness Wrong Genre Savvy Room Full of Crazy Abusive Parents Super Strength Ass Shove Vacation Films Ripped from the Headlines An Axe to Grind Papa Wolf Loads and Loads of Characters Psychopathic Manchild Henpecked Husband Pet the Dog The Chessmaster Rule of Three Stealth Pun Training Montage Reality Is Unrealistic Greater-Scope Villain Every Car Is a Pinto Fatal Family Photo Race Lift Hooker with a Heart of Gold Frame-Up Documentary Dirty Coward Domestic Abuse Nothing Is Scarier Decoy Protagonist Historical Villain Upgrade Asshole Victim Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Fainting Madness Mantra Action Girl Match Cut Blatant Lies Bloody Hilarious Only Known by Their Nickname Posthumous Character Bond One-Liner Rich Bitch Have a Gay Old Time As Himself Politically Incorrect Villain Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Cat Scare Aww, Look! 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Scare Chord Eiffel Tower Effect The Musical The Hero Agony of the Feet