Tropescilloscope: Death by Sex
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How We Got Here
Fire-Forged Friends
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Rape as Drama
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Ripped from the Headlines
Oh, Crap!
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
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Have a Gay Old Time
Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
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Shipper on Deck
As You Know
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Took a Level in Badass
Made of Iron
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Bad "Bad Acting"
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Here We Go Again!
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Kids Are Cruel
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Never Found the Body
It Will Never Catch On
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Not What It Looks Like
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He Knows Too Much
Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
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Say My Name
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Our Zombies Are Different
A God Am I
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There Is No Kill Like Overkill
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Up to Eleven
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Improbable Infant Survival
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Not Quite Dead
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I Need a Freaking Drink
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In Name Only
Be Careful What You Wish For
Woman Scorned
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You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!
Small Name, Big Ego
Not So Above It All
Bound and Gagged
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Taking You with Me
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Older Than They Look
Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Good Is Not Nice
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Hypocrite
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Demonic Possession
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Armor-Piercing Question
Dark Is Not Evil
Babies Ever After
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Did Not Get the Girl
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
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Unreliable Narrator
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Make It Look Like an Accident
Wrong Genre Savvy
Took a Level in Jerkass
Sinister Minister
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Eyepatch of Power
Mr. Fanservice
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All Men Are Perverts
Shout-Out
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Retirony
Mistaken for Gay
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Your Cheating Heart
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
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Wham Shot
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
The Oner
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Let's Get Dangerous!
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight
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Riddle for the Ages
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Eldritch Abomination
Line-of-Sight Name
Male Gaze
Cool Old Lady
Drugs Are Bad
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
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Not Even Bothering with the Accent
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business
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Only One Name
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Cat Fight
Light Is Not Good
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
Batman Gambit
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What the Hell, Hero?
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The Lost Lenore
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Moment Killer
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Take a Third Option
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Truth in Television
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Betty and Veronica
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Maybe Ever After
Kick the Dog
Nice Hat
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Once More, with Clarity!
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Does This Remind You of Anything?
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Sir Swears-a-Lot
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It's Personal
Asshole Victim
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A Father to His Men
Woman in White
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Unwitting Instigator of Doom
I'm a Humanitarian
Gone Horribly Right
Domestic Abuse
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Reality Has No Subtitles
No Celebrities Were Harmed
Rich Bitch
Jitter Cam
All There in the Manual
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And the Adventure Continues
Superhero
Stalker with a Crush
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
The Un-Reveal
Really Gets Around
Berserk Button
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Hope Spot
Visual Pun
Honor Before Reason
Loads and Loads of Characters
Only a Flesh Wound
Bury Your Gays
Red Shirt
Bi the Way
Gilligan Cut
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Eiffel Tower Effect
Country Matters
Ambiguously Gay
All Girls Want Bad Boys
Parental Incest
Big-Bad Ensemble
Black Best Friend
FaceHeel Turn
Gorn
Film Series
Awesome, but Impractical
Distracted by the Sexy
All There in the Script
Big Damn Heroes
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Dressing as the Enemy
What Happened to the Mouse?
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!
Big Bad Duumvirate
For Want of a Nail
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Not So Stoic
It Can Think
The Faceless
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Creepy Child
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Not So Different
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Does Not Like Shoes
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Meaningful Echo
The Sociopath
Almost Kiss
Kill It with Fire
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Ominous Latin Chanting
Take That!
One-Man Army
Shell-Shocked Veteran
Translation Convention
Disney Death
The Power of Love
Peek-a-Boo Corpse
Adapted Out
Friend to All Children
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Adaptation Distillation
Every Car Is a Pinto
Naïve Newcomer
Papa Wolf
The Voiceless
From Bad to Worse
Celebrity Paradox
20 Minutes into the Future
Well-Intentioned Extremist
Crazy-Prepared
Those Wacky Nazis
French Films
Death by Adaptation
Dual Wielding
Defiant to the End
Mercy Kill
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Knight Templar
Cool Shades
Lock and Load Montage
Music Stories
Meaningful Name
Even Evil Has Standards
Parental Abandonment
For the Evulz
As the Good Book Says...
Neck Snap
The Hero
Product Placement
Beta Couple
Vitriolic Best Buds
Would Hurt a Child
Age Lift
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Bring My Brown Pants
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Due to the Dead
Black Dude Dies First
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My God, What Have I Done?
You Have Failed Me
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Deal with the Devil
Dumb Blonde
Married to the Job
Alas, Poor Villain
Drill Sergeant Nasty
Throwing Your Sword Always Works
Gold Digger
Blood from the Mouth
Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
Room Full of Crazy
Anachronic Order
Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Half the Man He Used to Be
Vomit Discretion Shot
Tap on the Head
Silence Is Golden
Same Language Dub
Department of Redundancy Department
Punch-Clock Villain
Stylistic Suck
Lampshade Hanging
Retcon
Fantastic Racism
Flipping the Bird
Nice Guy
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Cool Guns
Redemption Equals Death
Police are Useless
Recycled IN SPACE!
The Brute
Show Within a Show
Aside Glance
Laser-Guided Karma
Drowning My Sorrows
What You Are in the Dark
Knife Nut
Homage
Sole Survivor
The Mafia
Villain with Good Publicity
Bait-and-Switch
Animal Motifs
Boom, Headshot!
Black and Gray Morality
The Bad Guy Wins
Soundtrack Dissonance
Sealed Evil in a Can
Rule of Three
You Killed My Father
Air-Vent Passageway
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Super Strength
Men Are the Expendable Gender
Bad Boss
Leave the Camera Running
Adaptation Dye-Job
Novelization
Getting Crap Past the Radar
Dogged Nice Guy
Wretched Hive
The Ace
Credits Gag
An Aesop
Parental Substitute
Too Dumb to Live
One Steve Limit
Vomit Indiscretion Shot
Alpha Bitch
Fingore
Historical-Domain Character
The '90s
Happily Married
Hair-Trigger Temper
Informed Ability
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
Those Two Guys
Easily Forgiven
Ship Tease
Your Head A-Splode
Sequel Hook
Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
Running Gag
Bond One-Liner
German Films
Fatal Flaw
The Great Depression
Corrupt Corporate Executive
Red Right Hand
True Companions
Ass Shove
Girl-on-Girl Is Hot
Villainous Breakdown
Non-Indicative Name
Spell My Name with an "S"
Faux Affably Evil
Arch-Enemy
Artistic License Military
Comically Missing the Point
Overprotective Dad
Adorkable
Wicked Cultured
As Himself
Adults Are Useless
No Name Given
Narrator
Enemy Mine
Amoral Attorney
Dramatic Gun Cock
Obviously Evil
Children Are Innocent
Whole Plot Reference
Love at First Sight
Accidental Misnaming
Bilingual Bonus
Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Chekhov's Skill
Faking the Dead
Neck Lift
Red Oni, Blue Oni
No OSHA Compliance
She's Got Legs
Fish out of Water
Bar Brawl
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Martial Arts Movie
Scenery Gorn
The Lancer
Frame-Up
Intrepid Reporter
Captain Ersatz
The '80s
Evil Brit
Advertised Extra
Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Historical Villain Upgrade
Cowboy Cop
Auto Erotica
Grievous Bottley Harm
Bald of Evil
Market-Based Title
Setting Update
Adult Fear
Big Applesauce
Naked People Are Funny
Evil vs. Evil
Immune to Bullets
The End... Or Is It?
"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
Badass Grandpa
Chekhov's Gun
Action Girl
Death by Irony
Posthumous Character
Kill 'em All
Cluster F-Bomb
Anyone Can Die
Rasputinian Death
Foil
Badass Boast
Straight Gay
Male Frontal Nudity
Beard of Evil
In Medias Res
Manchild
Anti-Hero
Properly Paranoid
Cold-Blooded Torture
Defrosting Ice Queen
Adaptational Attractiveness
Left the Background Music On
Anti-Villain
Instant Death Bullet
Femme Fatale