Tropescilloscope: Defiant to the End
A merciless villain gets no respect from a captive. (read more at tvtropes.org)
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
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I Have Your Wife
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Police are Useless
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You Killed My Father
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This Is Gonna Suck
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Nothing Is Scarier
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As You Know
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Together in Death
Your Head A-Splode
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Kill It with Fire
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Spell My Name with an "S"
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Not Quite Dead
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Batman Gambit
Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
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Hoist by His Own Petard
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Villain Song
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Action Girl
Death by Irony
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Hollywood Law
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Covers Always Lie
Riddle for the Ages
Tranquil Fury
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Australian Movies
Dual Wielding
Show Within a Show
The Reveal
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Put on a Bus
Rich Bitch
Domestic Abuse
Break the Haughty
Pay Evil unto Evil
Neck Snap
The Un-Favourite
aka: The Un Favorite
Blood Knight
Mexican Standoff
Television Movie Index
Overprotective Dad
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Animal Title Index
Those Two Guys
Blood from the Mouth
Historical Villain Upgrade
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Butt-Monkey
Too Dumb to Live
Loads and Loads of Characters
Scary Black Man
Bullying a Dragon
Ripped from the Headlines
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The Chick
Kick the Dog
Only One Name
The Power of Love
Setting Update
Evil Sounds Deep
Outrun the Fireball
Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Accidental Misnaming
Eiffel Tower Effect
Heroes Want Redheads
Determinator
Wretched Hive
Take a Third Option
Recycled IN SPACE!
Ghost Fiction
Demoted to Extra
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The X of Y
Fainting
Better to Die than Be Killed
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
The Cavalry
Hollywood Darkness
Drowning My Sorrows
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Totally Radical
Kill 'em All
Really Gets Around
A God Am I
Failed a Spot Check
Determinator
aka: The Determinator
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"Awesome McCool" Name
20 Minutes into the Future
Only a Flesh Wound
Gender Flip
Camp Gay
All Men Are Perverts
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Arch-Enemy
Here We Go Again!
The '50s
Adults Are Useless
Crapsack World
Femme Fatale
Cluster F-Bomb
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Hero Antagonist
Beware the Nice Ones
Eyepatch of Power
No-Sell
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Cat Fight
One Steve Limit
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Gilligan Cut
Author Avatar
Adaptation Name Change
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Catch-Phrase
Ascended Extra
Everyone Has Standards
Training Montage
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Idiot Ball
Final Girl
One-Word Title
Twist Ending
Improbable Aiming Skills
Cowboy Cop
Interrupted Suicide
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Parental Incest
Evil Brit
Eagleland
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More Dakka
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Pimped-Out Dress
Getting Crap Past the Radar
The Hero Dies
One-Man Army
Once More, with Clarity!
Cool Shades
The Dog Bites Back
Not What It Looks Like
Race Lift
Wham Line
Red Eyes, Take Warning
Reckless Gun Usage
Ambiguously Gay
Becoming the Mask
Card-Carrying Villain
Unusual Euphemism
Continuity Nod
Destination Defenestration
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Love Triangle
Does Not Like Shoes
Bloodier and Gorier
Bound and Gagged
Imagine Spot
Properly Paranoid
Dark Reprise
Breaking the Fourth Wall
Ax-Crazy
Retirony
Drives Like Crazy
MacGuffin
Smoking Is Cool
Didn't Think This Through
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Shirtless Scene
Chiaroscuro
Stylistic Suck
Bottomless Magazines
Mooks
Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Spiteful Spit
Abhorrent Admirer
Deconstruction
Title Drop
Wrong Genre Savvy
Taking You with Me
The Stoner
Love at First Sight
You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!
The Brute
Famous Last Words
Shout-Out
Heroic BSoD
And I Must Scream
Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Bare Your Midriff
Daddy's Girl
Fourth Date Marriage
Laser-Guided Karma
No Antagonist
No OSHA Compliance
Bilingual Bonus
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Thriller
It's Personal
"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Affably Evil
Made of Iron
Beta Couple
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Anguished Declaration of Love
Adaptation Dye-Job
Annoying Younger Sibling
The Place
Wicked Cultured
Kids Are Cruel
Expository Hairstyle Change
Storming the Castle
Rewatch Bonus
The Musical
Corpsing
The Bad Guy Wins
Monumental Damage
The Big Guy
Sassy Black Woman
Bar Brawl
Honor Before Reason
Woman in White
Ironic Echo
Animal Motifs
Undying Loyalty
Reality Has No Subtitles
Intrepid Reporter
The Starscream
Faking the Dead
Laughing Mad
Sir Swears-a-Lot
Woman Scorned
Dramatic Irony
Babies Ever After
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Leitmotif
Immune to Bullets
Flipping the Bird
From Bad to Worse
Whole Plot Reference
Defrosting Ice Queen
Author Appeal
Black Best Friend
Adapted Out
Chase Scene
Loophole Abuse
Canadian Movies
"Well Done, Son!" Guy
Wham Shot
Homage
Chekhov's Gunman
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
Frame-Up
Spared by the Adaptation
From Nobody to Nightmare
Psycho for Hire