Tropescilloscope: Didn't Think This Through

A plan has a critical, crippling flaw. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Is a Crapshoot Accidental Misnaming An Arm and a Leg Have a Gay Old Time Papa Wolf Spared by the Adaptation Beware the Nice Ones Fake Shemp Hero Antagonist Reckless Gun Usage Villain with Good Publicity Better to Die than Be Killed Male Frontal Nudity All Girls Want Bad Boys Be Careful What You Wish For Unreliable Narrator Jump Scare Improbable Aiming Skills Crapsack World Bittersweet Ending Bald of Evil Country Matters Ripped from the Headlines Not So Different Adaptation Distillation I Want My Beloved to Be Happy And Starring "Shaggy Dog" Story The Quiet One Science Fiction Films Spanner in the Works The End... Or Is It? 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Is Serious Business Noodle Incident Accidental Murder Meaningful Background Event I Have Your Wife Dark and Troubled Past Meet Cute Unusually Uninteresting Sight And the Adventure Continues Would Hurt a Child Loophole Abuse Tagline Wounded Gazelle Gambit Extreme Doormat Last-Name Basis Revenge Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Naïve Newcomer Call-Forward Shipper on Deck Eldritch Abomination Not Quite Dead Parental Abandonment Jerkass Has a Point Captain Obvious Good Is Not Nice Bavarian Fire Drill Corpsing The Stinger Horror Comedy The Great Depression Japanese Films Bait-and-Switch The '80s Cluster F-Bomb Henpecked Husband Major Injury Underreaction Even Evil Has Loved Ones Those Two Bad Guys Hate Sink Foregone Conclusion Bar Brawl Continuity Nod The Bad Guy Wins Video Credits Morality Pet Dying Moment of Awesome Madness Mantra You Killed My Father Casting Gag British Films Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Offscreen Teleportation Self-Deprecation Department of Redundancy Department Logo Joke Green-Eyed Monster Soft Glass Implacable Man