Tropescilloscope: Curb-Stomp Battle
Defeating an opponent with barely any effort. (read more at tvtropes.org)
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
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What the Hell, Hero?
Kill 'em All
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Totally Radical
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
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Anyone Can Die
Tempting Fate
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Evil Is Petty
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Serious Business
Adapted Out
Tap on the Head
The '90s
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Red Right Hand
The Cameo
Black Comedy Rape
Evil Sounds Deep
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Armor-Piercing Question
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Beard of Evil
Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
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Cool Old Guy
Evil vs. Evil
Determinator
Canon Foreigner
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Hero of Another Story
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Spell My Name with an "S"
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
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Your Cheating Heart
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For Want of a Nail
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Take That!
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This Is Gonna Suck
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Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
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Beauty Is Never Tarnished
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It Will Never Catch On
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Author Appeal
All Men Are Perverts
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No Celebrities Were Harmed
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
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Country Matters
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Taking You with Me
The Bad Guy Wins
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Retirony
Sports Stories
Pragmatic Adaptation
And the Adventure Continues
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Drugs Are Bad
Stepford Smiler
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Artistic License Physics
Badass in a Nice Suit
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
My Greatest Failure
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Alpha Bitch
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Silence Is Golden
Only in It for the Money
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Earn Your Happy Ending
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Those Two Guys
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As the Good Book Says...
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He Knows Too Much
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
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Would Hit a Girl
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
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You Have Failed Me
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Danny Peary Cult Movies List
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Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Children Are Innocent
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Even Evil Has Standards
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Get Out!
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Not What It Looks Like
Bullying a Dragon
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Leave the Camera Running
Christmas Movies Index
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Drowning My Sorrows
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No Ending
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Rich Bitch
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Break the Cutie
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Not Quite Dead
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An Axe to Grind
Dark Reprise
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Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
A.I. Is a Crapshoot
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Agony of the Feet
Dumb Blonde
The Dreaded
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Let's Get Dangerous!
Never Trust a Trailer
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Happily Married
Biopic
And Starring
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Red Eyes, Take Warning
Rousing Speech
Shoot the Shaggy Dog
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Victoria's Secret Compartment
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Meaningful Echo
Arranged Marriage
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She's Got Legs
Outrun the Fireball
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Big "NO!"
Fake Shemp
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I'm a Humanitarian
Red Herring
Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer
Dogged Nice Guy
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The Chick
Spanner in the Works
Music Stories
Gorn
Anachronism Stew
Hell Is That Noise
Downer Ending
Cool Shades
Blackmail
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Older Than They Look
Gone Horribly Right
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Awesome, but Impractical
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Evil Counterpart
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Your Head A-Splode
The Hero Dies
Alliterative Name
Smoking Is Cool
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Chekhov's Skill
Maybe Ever After
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Kill It with Fire
Pet the Dog
Would Hurt a Child
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A Father to His Men
Insult Backfire
Immune to Bullets
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Psychopathic Manchild
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Drives Like Crazy
Mr. Fanservice
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Recycled IN SPACE!
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Famous Last Words
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Morality Pet
Translation Convention
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Slashed Throat
Hypocritical Humor
Motor Mouth
Humiliation Conga
Dropped a Bridge on Him
Dissonant Serenity
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Off with His Head!
Every Car Is a Pinto
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You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!
Evil Laugh
Enemy Mine
Arc Words
Catapult Nightmare
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No Name Given
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Disappeared Dad
Creator Cameo
Call-Back
Artistic License History
Car Fu
Killed Mid-Sentence
The Dragon
Fanservice
Ship Tease
Parental Neglect
Actually Pretty Funny
Woman Scorned
Nothing Is Scarier
Death by Sex
Villainous Breakdown
Crapsack World
Action Survivor
Award-Bait Song
Large Ham
Idiot Ball
Badass Bookworm
Defiant to the End
In Name Only
Rasputinian Death
Pretty in Mink
Flipping the Bird
Reality Ensues
Narrator
The Big Guy
Match Cut
The Remake
Bare Your Midriff
Gratuitous English
Improvised Weapon
Bad "Bad Acting"
Facial Horror
Amusing Injuries
No OSHA Compliance
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Rule of Symbolism
My God, What Have I Done?
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Mr. Exposition
Superhero
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Big Fancy House
Knife Nut
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Distracted by the Sexy
Mythology Gag
Camp Gay
Better to Die than Be Killed
Green-Eyed Monster
Rape as Drama
Those Two Bad Guys
Took a Level in Jerkass
Sealed Evil in a Can
Fire-Forged Friends
Mugging the Monster
Mercy Kill
Funny Foreigner
Romantic False Lead
From Bad to Worse
Getting Crap Past the Radar
Decoy Protagonist
Vitriolic Best Buds
Badass Boast
Nice Guy
Abusive Parents
Rule of Three
Dying Moment of Awesome
The Atoner
Random Events Plot
The '80s
Destination Defenestration
Show Within a Show
Femme Fatale
Amoral Attorney
Guile Hero
Jerkass Has a Point
Ripped from the Headlines
How We Got Here
Artistic License Law
There Is No Kill Like Overkill
20 Minutes into the Future
Vomit Discretion Shot
Cold-Blooded Torture
Heroes Want Redheads
Dull Surprise
Together in Death
Flashback
Belligerent Sexual Tension
Dramatic Irony
Real Life Writes the Plot
Off-into-the-Distance Ending
Pay Evil unto Evil
Male Gaze
Half the Man He Used to Be
Fat Bastard
Fingore
Love at First Sight
It Can Think
The Alleged Car
Babies Ever After
Only Known by Their Nickname
Guns Akimbo
The Film of the Book
Irony
Meaningful Background Event
Rewatch Bonus
Roger Ebert: Great Movies List
Calling the Old Man Out
Action Prologue
One Steve Limit
Punny Name
Spiritual Successor
Scary Black Man
Demonic Possession
The Starscream