Tropescilloscope: Curse Cut Short

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Mooks Call-Back Would Hit a Girl All There in the Script Romantic False Lead Twist Ending Foreshadowing Index of Film Westerns Abhorrent Admirer No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Nothing Is Scarier Dark Action Girl Improbable Weapon User Documentary My Greatest Failure Training Montage Heroic Sacrifice Good Is Not Nice Pet the Dog You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Offscreen Teleportation Chewing the Scenery Sir Swears-a-Lot Heroes Want Redheads Stalker with a Crush Almost Kiss The Big Guy Meaningful Name An Arm and a Leg Male Gaze Riddle for the Ages Video Credits Meaningful Background Event Rule of Symbolism Jerkass Has a Point Ominous Latin Chanting Combat Pragmatist Immune to Bullets Rich Bitch Tap on the Head Epic Movie Properly Paranoid Face Death with Dignity Rasputinian Death A Date with Rosie Palms Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Screw the Money, I Have Rules! The Hero Death Seeker She's Got Legs Hell Is That Noise Foregone Conclusion Affectionate Parody Driven to Suicide Betty and Veronica Brick Joke Covers Always Lie Cassandra Truth Developing Doomed Characters Evil-Detecting Dog Red Right Hand Does Not Like Shoes Hypocrite Shout-Out Race Against the Clock The End... Or Is It? The Stoner The Casanova Your Head A-Splode Dramatic Irony There Is No Kill Like Overkill Psychological Thriller As You Know Beard of Evil Never Found the Body Pyrrhic Victory Death by Irony Babies Ever After Daylight Horror Left the Background Music On Corrupt Corporate Executive Kick the Dog Bloodless Carnage BFG Spiteful Spit Cool Old Lady Pimped-Out Dress Eagleland Brother–Sister Incest All Girls Want Bad Boys Worthy Opponent Dramatic Gun Cock Beware the Nice Ones May–December Romance Improbable Aiming Skills Humiliation Conga Sinister Minister Suspiciously Similar Substitute Gold Digger Eye Scream Off with His Head! 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Downer Ending Hollywood Darkness Get Out! The Ditz Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Naked People Are Funny Action Prologue Deal with the Devil Face–Heel Turn Artistic License – Law Evil Plan Outrun the Fireball Superhero Ambiguous Ending Anti-Hero Only Sane Man Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun No-Sell Kill It with Fire Market-Based Title Big Brother Instinct Silence Is Golden Expy Green-Eyed Monster Creator Cameo Crazy Jealous Guy Morality Pet Evil Sounds Deep Everyone Has Standards Older Than They Look Maybe Ever After It's Personal Sanity Slippage Chekhov's Skill Author Appeal Villainous Breakdown Only One Name Does This Remind You of Anything? Mythology Gag Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Very Loosely Based on a True Story Manly Tears Disappeared Dad Even Evil Has Loved Ones Car Fu Real Life Writes the Plot Gilligan Cut Cluster F-Bomb Calling the Old Man Out Credits Gag Film Noir Index Obstructive Bureaucrat Card-Carrying Villain Dumb Blonde Suddenly SHOUTING! Precision F-Strike Henpecked Husband True Companions Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Bolivian Army Ending Destination Defenestration The Stinger Tempting Fate Adaptation Dye-Job The Starscream Loophole Abuse And I Must Scream Mr. Exposition Demoted to Extra Large Ham Science Fiction Films Wrong Genre Savvy Determinator aka: The Determinator Defiant to the End Coming-of-Age Story Character Development Dirty Old Man Redemption Equals Death Hooker with a Heart of Gold Pretty Little Headshots Drowning My Sorrows Big Fancy House Gorn Mighty Whitey He Knows Too Much Australian Movies Unwitting Instigator of Doom Anti-Villain Guile Hero "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Plucky Comic Relief Armor-Piercing Question Intergenerational Friendship As Himself Totally Radical Horror Films Unresolved Sexual Tension Breaking the Fourth Wall Smoking Is Cool And the Adventure Continues Retcon Italian Films Action Genre Bullying a Dragon Camp Gay Break the Haughty Thriller The Lancer Evil vs. Evil Did Not Get the Girl Defrosting Ice Queen Anachronic Order Artistic License – Physics Artistic License – Military Enemy Mine Accidental Misnaming Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Awesome, but Impractical Shower Scene timeperiod Comically Missing the Point Sports Stories Crucified Hero Shot Closed Circle Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Villain Protagonist Badass Boast Boom, Headshot! Cowboy Cop Plot Hole Evil Is Hammy "Well Done, Son!" 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No OSHA Compliance Those Two Guys Continuity Nod It Can Think The Un-Reveal Anguished Declaration of Love Berserk Button Wham Shot As the Good Book Says... Death by Adaptation Stock Footage Flashback More Dakka Gender Flip All Men Are Perverts Easily Forgiven Parental Abandonment All Just a Dream Fanservice Broken Pedestal Villain Ball Retired Badass Captain Ersatz Roaring Rampage of Revenge Children Are Innocent Exactly What It Says on the Tin Beta Couple Parental Incest Black Comedy Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Kubrick Stare Instant Death Bullet Cruel and Unusual Death Chekhov's Gunman Friend to All Children Batman Gambit Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Wham Line The Lost Lenore Match Cut The Film of the Book Sassy Black Woman Undying Loyalty Black and Gray Morality Refuge in Audacity Shell-Shocked Veteran Madness Mantra World of Ham Animal Title Index Translation Convention Ripped from the Headlines Token Minority War Is Hell Here We Go Again! 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Small Name, Big Ego No Name Given My God, What Have I Done? 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They Really Do Love Each Other "Awesome McCool" Name Heroic BSoD Knight Templar Sequel Hook Funny Background Event Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Epic Fail The Ghost My Beloved Smother Moment Killer Advertised Extra The Load Costume Porn Cool Old Guy Famous Last Words Action Girl Non-Indicative Name Killed Mid-Sentence Decoy Protagonist Blood from the Mouth Ascended Extra Adult Fear Knife Nut Missing Mom Expository Hairstyle Change Creepy Child Dwindling Party Fiery Redhead Politically Incorrect Villain Artistic License – Geography Unreliable Narrator Even Evil Has Standards Conspicuous CG Title Drop Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Skewed Priorities Authority Equals Asskicking