Tropescilloscope: Does This Remind You of Anything?

Something is suggestive of something else other than what it actually is. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Is a Crapshoot Dark Is Not Evil Adaptational Attractiveness Fun with Acronyms Parental Incest Horror Comedy Bilingual Bonus Punny Name Depraved Bisexual Hair-Trigger Temper German Films Accidental Murder Kids Are Cruel Laser-Guided Karma Advertised Extra Bolivian Army Ending As Long as It Sounds Foreign Insult Backfire Manic Pixie Dream Girl No Antagonist Hero Antagonist Not So Above It All May–December Romance Calling the Old Man Out Damsel in Distress The Place Fish out of Water Humans Are Bastards I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Final Girl She Cleans Up Nicely O.O.C. Is Serious Business The Alcoholic Apocalypse How Hidden Depths Honor Before Reason Country Matters Brutal Honesty Science Fiction Films The '50s Imagine Spot Breaking the Fourth Wall Ascended Extra Heel Realization Evil Laugh Hypocritical Humor Monumental Damage Rule of Three Canadian Movies Neck Lift Brainless Beauty "The Reason You Suck" Speech Artistic License – Biology Christmas Movies Index Evil Counterpart Re-Cut Danny Peary Cult Movies List Curse Cut Short Novelization Authority Equals Asskicking Not Even Bothering with the Accent Sole Survivor Slashed Throat Bavarian Fire Drill Evil Is Petty Bare Your Midriff Improvised Weapon Becoming the Mask Shipper on Deck Posthumous Character Show Within a Show Decoy Protagonist Frame-Up Smoking Is Cool Alliterative Name Hong Kong Films Cowboy Cop Scenery Porn Disappeared Dad Heterosexual Life-Partners Rousing Speech Jerkass Has a Point Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Wounded Gazelle Gambit Evil Brit BFG Fake Shemp Villain Song The Musical Darker and Edgier In Medias Res Star-Crossed Lovers And Starring Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Chekhov's Gun Based on a True Story Hope Spot La Résistance Refuge in Audacity Mighty Whitey The Chessmaster Earn Your Happy Ending Parental Substitute Left the Background Music On Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Mr. Fanservice Asshole Victim Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Curb-Stomp Battle Cool Old Lady Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Undying Loyalty Peek-a-Boo Corpse Groin Attack Bloodier and Gorier Does Not Like Shoes Totally Radical Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Cat Scare Never Trust a Trailer Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Film Noir Determinator aka: The Determinator Creator Cameo The Quiet One Tranquil Fury Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Pimped-Out Dress Riddle for the Ages Italian Films The Chick '80s Hair Moment Killer Cloudcuckoolander Retirony Badass Longcoat Villain Opening Scene Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Only in It for the Money Canon Foreigner Gory Discretion Shot Costume Porn Revenge Freudian Excuse Pay Evil unto Evil Daylight Horror Contrived Coincidence Dull Surprise The Great Depression Malevolent Masked Men Creative Closing Credits Fingore Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Hell Is That Noise Mad Scientist The Ghost Shell-Shocked Veteran Our Zombies Are Different True Companions Insistent Terminology Jerk Jock Only One Name Eye Scream The Reveal I Need a Freaking Drink Bait-and-Switch Cruel and Unusual Death Casting Gag Brother–Sister Incest Idiot Ball Green-Eyed Monster Disproportionate Retribution No Ending Fate Worse than Death Your Head A-Splode Police are Useless Award-Bait Song One Steve Limit Cain and Abel Anachronic Order Hate Sink Properly Paranoid Time Skip Overprotective Dad Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Motor Mouth Flashback Empathic Environment Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Zombie Stories Deliberate Values Dissonance Soundtrack Dissonance Male Gaze Playing Gertrude Aluminum Christmas Trees Large Ham Anti-Hero Artistic License – Geography Blood from the Mouth Greater-Scope Villain Psycho for Hire Vomit Indiscretion Shot Gainax Ending The Big Guy Shirtless Scene Author Appeal Big "NO!" 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