Tropescilloscope: Drill Sergeant Nasty

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The Smart Guy I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Unusually Uninteresting Sight British Films Lighter and Softer Creepy Child Russian Films Antagonist Title Deliberately Monochrome Expository Hairstyle Change Big Fancy House Badass in a Nice Suit Epic Movie An Axe to Grind The Place Celebrity Paradox Cat Fight Take That! Pyrrhic Victory Plot Hole Disproportionate Retribution Bad "Bad Acting" Captain Obvious Eyepatch of Power Shut Up, Hannibal! Double Entendre Heroes Want Redheads Match Cut Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Curb-Stomp Battle Training Montage Have a Gay Old Time Cool Old Lady The Ditz Knife Nut Mugging the Monster Dogged Nice Guy Fatal Family Photo Camp Gay Diabolus ex Machina Hypocrite Storming the Castle Animal Motifs Abhorrent Admirer The Stoic Double-Meaning Title Romantic False Lead Genre Savvy An Arm and a Leg Skewed Priorities Did Not Get the Girl Comically Missing the Point Riddle for the Ages Race Lift Police are Useless Playing Gertrude Only Known by Their Nickname Defrosting Ice Queen Fat Bastard Catapult Nightmare Brother–Sister Incest Faking the Dead She Cleans Up Nicely Foil As You Know Bare Your Midriff Chewing the Scenery Every Car Is a Pinto Small Name, Big Ego Failed a Spot Check Running Gag The Mafia Soundtrack Dissonance Parental Abandonment Kill 'em All Market-Based Title Creative Closing Credits Index of Film Westerns Canadian Movies Demoted to Extra Silent Movie Male Gaze Logo Joke Flipping the Bird Heroic BSoD Moment Killer Malevolent Masked Men Scenery Porn B-Movie Genre Throwback Ax-Crazy Mercy Kill Armor-Piercing Question Re-Cut The Power of Love Dirty Old Man Demonic Possession Whole Plot Reference Needs Wiki Magic Love Depraved Bisexual Easily Forgiven Animated Credits Opening Big Bad Crucified Hero Shot She's Got Legs "Shaggy Dog" Story Meaningful Name Children Are Innocent An Aesop Artistic License – Law Closed Circle Retired Badass Spanner in the Works Obstructive Bureaucrat Black Best Friend Becoming the Mask Same Language Dub Unspoken Plan Guarantee I Need a Freaking Drink Kick the Son of a Bitch Faux Affably Evil Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies The Hero Dies MacGuffin Shirtless Scene Exactly What It Says on the Tin Disappeared Dad Sinister Minister Not So Above It All Deadpan Snarker Red Shirt Hate Sink Fire-Forged Friends Karma Houdini No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Age Lift Kubrick Stare Agony of the Feet Honor Before Reason Hong Kong Films Evil Is Hammy Fate Worse than Death Central Theme Blood Knight Downer Ending Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Only in It for the Money Evil Brit La Résistance Stylistic Suck Men Are the Expendable Gender Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass A God Am I You Have Failed Me Ass Shove Domestic Abuse Final Girl Made of Iron Outrun the Fireball Tap on the Head Real Life Writes the Plot Self-Deprecation Bait-and-Switch Adaptational Heroism A.I. Is a Crapshoot Defiant to the End Badass Bookworm How We Got Here Evil vs. Evil Ghost Fiction All Girls Want Bad Boys Mind Screw Call-Forward Bittersweet Ending Male Frontal Nudity Almost Kiss Tempting Fate Character Development Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy The Un-Reveal Camera Abuse Arc Words Take a Third Option Hoist by His Own Petard Alpha Bitch Hair-Trigger Temper Only Sane Man Worthy Opponent Evil Plan Dark and Troubled Past Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold The Stinger Translation Convention Token Minority Gold Digger Artistic License – Military Race Against the Clock Those Two Bad Guys Pragmatic Villainy I'm a Humanitarian Cool Car Ambiguous Ending Guns Akimbo Line-of-Sight Name Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Creator Cameo Foregone Conclusion Chekhov's Gunman Card-Carrying Villain Stock Footage Animal Title Index Missing Mom Throwing Your Sword Always Works Fantasy Films Historical-Domain Character Papa Wolf Room Full of Crazy Groin Attack Action Prologue Taking the Bullet Arranged Marriage Death Glare Only a Flesh Wound Shell-Shocked Veteran Madness Mantra Sci-Fi Horror Anti-Villain Big Applesauce Not Quite Dead Butt-Monkey The Casanova Betty and Veronica Hope Spot Would Hit a Girl Hooker with a Heart of Gold Shipper on Deck Cool Old Guy Off-into-the-Distance Ending No Ending Wicked Cultured Here We Go Again! Bland-Name Product Department of Redundancy Department Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Let's Get Dangerous! Mood Whiplash Damsel in Distress Screw the Money, I Have Rules! The Musical Shown Their Work Sequel Escalation Documentary Off with His Head! Reasonable Authority Figure Determinator Author Appeal Maybe Ever After Woman in White It Can Think Those Wacky Nazis Artistic License – Geography Driven to Suicide My Greatest Failure Fatal Flaw Once More, with Clarity! Punny Name Irony Conspicuous CG Important Haircut Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Funny Foreigner Love at First Sight Badass Longcoat Adaptational Attractiveness Rated M for Manly Happily Married Big-Bad Ensemble Does Not Like Shoes Zombie Stories Earn Your Happy Ending Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Punch-Clock Villain Trailers Always Spoil Adaptation Name Change Killed Mid-Sentence Rasputinian Death Star-Crossed Lovers He Who Fights Monsters Noodle Incident Daddy's Girl Scary Black Man Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Leave the Camera Running All There in the Script Dies Wide Open Anachronic Order What You Are in the Dark Berserk Button The Oner I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Not What It Looks Like Mr. Exposition Dramatic Irony Accidental Misnaming Public Domain Feature Films Artistic License – Physics Informed Ability More Dakka Catch-Phrase Black Dude Dies First Manipulative Bastard Rule of Three Nice Guy Darkest Hour Leitmotif Back from the Dead This Is Gonna Suck Be Careful What You Wish For Pimped-Out Dress The '90s The Sociopath The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Dark Is Not Evil Refuge in Audacity Dutch Angle Action Genre Frame-Up Brainless Beauty Put on a Bus Everyone Has Standards Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Rule of Cool Dark Reprise Word of God Pretty Little Headshots Cat Scare The Mole Twist Ending Big Damn Heroes Badass Boast Genre Shift Heroic Sacrifice Based on a True Story Stepford Smiler The '50s Vacation Films Bloodier and Gorier Scare Chord Obfuscating Stupidity Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer No Celebrities Were Harmed Apocalypse How Neck Lift Asshole Victim Bolivian Army Ending Dull Surprise Left the Background Music On Chase Scene Car Fu Naked People Are Funny Paper-Thin Disguise As Long as It Sounds Foreign Adults Are Useless Monumental Damage Adult Fear Breaking the Fourth Wall timeperiod Adaptation Expansion Action Girl Gilligan Cut Retirony Novelization Belligerent Sexual Tension No Name Given Due to the Dead What Happened to the Mouse? Psychopathic Manchild And Starring Bad Boss Actually Pretty Funny Film Noir Index The Dog Bites Back Fiery Redhead Ship Tease Bar Brawl Mama Bear Credits Gag Slasher Smile Gone Horribly Right Well-Intentioned Extremist Framing Device Eye Scream Dirty Coward Captain Ersatz Dirty Cop In Name Only Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Never Found the Body Taking You with Me Batman Gambit Four-Temperament Ensemble Break the Cutie Broken Bird The Chessmaster Up to Eleven The '70s Disney Villain Death Offscreen Moment of Awesome Pretty in Mink Hollywood Darkness folderlabel The Vamp Hidden Depths Adaptation Distillation Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Pet the Dog Eureka Moment Roaring Rampage of Revenge Not Even Bothering with the Accent I Have Your Wife Face–Heel Turn Video Credits Amoral Attorney Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Implacable Man Kill It with Fire Horror Comedy Red Oni, Blue Oni Ambiguous Disorder Spell My Name with an "S" Daylight Horror The Ghost Villain with Good Publicity A Father to His Men Coming-of-Age Story The Alleged Car Dressing as the Enemy Insistent Terminology German Films Motor Mouth Badass Normal Vomit Discretion Shot O.O.C. Is Serious Business Scenery Gorn Bound and Gagged Hero of Another Story Reckless Gun Usage Sports Stories "Well Done, Son!" Guy Enemy Mine Villain Opening Scene Woman Scorned Deal with the Devil Hollywood Law Truth in Television Super Strength May–December Romance 20 Minutes into the Future Ominous Latin Chanting Fake Shemp The Voiceless Mad Scientist Drill Sergeant Nasty Mooks Bald of Evil Product Placement Jitter Cam Death by Irony Humiliation Conga Good Is Not Nice Retcon Slasher Movie Big Brother Instinct Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Adorkable Tagline Sealed Evil in a Can Hypocritical Humor The Reveal Jerkass Has a Point Light Is Not Good Heel Realization Unreliable Narrator Fan Disservice Destination Defenestration My Beloved Smother Italian Films Last-Name Basis Love Triangle Protagonist Title Casting Gag War Is Hell Older Than They Look Even Evil Has Standards Get Out! Covers Always Lie Funny Background Event Vampire Fiction Drowning My Sorrows Wounded Gazelle Gambit You Killed My Father The Stoner Ascended Extra Vomit Indiscretion Shot Ambiguously Gay Adaptational Villainy Curse Cut Short Gory Discretion Shot In Medias Res Make It Look Like an Accident Distracted by the Sexy Rape as Drama Knight Templar Bloodless Carnage Jerk Jock Crazy-Prepared Award-Bait Song Very Loosely Based on a True Story Broken Aesop No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Loads and Loads of Characters The Brute One-Word Title Black and Gray Morality Never My Fault Improbable Weapon User The Cavalry Sadistic Choice Pre-Asskicking One-Liner True Companions Shower Scene Villain Ball Handicapped Badass Slashed Throat Title Drop Ironic Echo Totally Radical Police Brutality Amusing Injuries Wham Line Awesome, but Impractical Intergenerational Friendship Psycho for Hire Heel–Face Turn Historical In-Joke Cain and Abel Toplessness from the Back Parental Incest Visual Pun Mythology Gag Sassy Black Woman Jerk with a Heart of Gold Instant Death Bullet The Smurfette Principle Death of a Child Revenge Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Unusual Euphemism Meaningful Background Event No-Sell Green-Eyed Monster Martial Arts Movie Femme Fatale Bond One-Liner Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Gender Flip Time Skip Bloody Hilarious The Faceless Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Sanity Slippage Boom, Headshot! BFG Overly Long Gag The Bad Guy Wins Historical Hero Upgrade Evil Sounds Deep Exact Words Chekhov's Skill Chekhov's Gun Darker and Edgier World of Ham NO INDOOR VOICE Married to the Job Dramedy Body Horror Babies Ever After The Dreaded Villainous Breakdown Plucky Comic Relief Names to Run Away from Really Fast Together in Death Unwitting Instigator of Doom Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Dying Moment of Awesome No Antagonist Manic Pixie Dream Girl Artistic License – History Despair Event Horizon Sole Survivor Establishing Character Moment Say My Name Sir Swears-a-Lot Anyone Can Die Friend to All Children Bunny-Ears Lawyer Non-Indicative Name Smoking Is Cool Bullying a Dragon Fingore Lock and Load Montage Spared by the Adaptation Interrupted Suicide Pre-Mortem One-Liner Setting Update Ms. Fanservice Foreshadowing You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Rule of Symbolism Crapsack World Fun with Acronyms Improvised Weapon Cool Guns Horror Films Fantastic Racism Sacrificial Lion Grievous Bottley Harm Villain Song Evil Counterpart Country Matters Ungrateful Bastard Broken Pedestal Gainax Ending Posthumous Character Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas "The Reason You Suck" Speech Dramatic Gun Cock Pragmatic Adaptation '80s Hair Red Eyes, Take Warning Black Comedy Not So Stoic Ripped from the Headlines Serious Business Morality Pet Getting Crap Past the Radar Only One Name Chiaroscuro Spiritual Successor Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Bowdlerise Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Meet Cute The Dragon Jump Scare Henpecked Husband The Ace Disney Death Biopic Works Set in World War II The X of Y Stalker with a Crush As Himself Death by Sex Freudian Excuse Better to Die than Be Killed Author Avatar Large Ham Accidental Murder Humans Are Bastards Attempted Rape Big Bad Duumvirate The '80s Rewatch Bonus Dropped a Bridge on Him Meaningful Echo Flashback The Bully Artistic License – Gun Safety In the Back Air-Vent Passageway Developing Doomed Characters Neck Snap Manly Tears Your Head A-Splode Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor The Big Guy Television Movie Index A Date with Rosie Palms Eldritch Abomination Manchild Aluminum Christmas Trees Not So Different Fanservice Kids Are Cruel Wretched Hive Insane Troll Logic Lampshade Hanging Laser-Guided Karma Took a Level in Jerkass Thriller Parental Neglect He Knows Too Much Cluster F-Bomb Film Series Military and Warfare Films Artistic License – Biology Dual Wielding Our Vampires Are Different Gorn Empathic Environment Rousing Speech Costume Porn Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Annoying Younger Sibling Combat Pragmatist Abusive Parents Half the Man He Used to Be Leaning on the Fourth Wall Silence Is Golden Bottomless Magazines Mighty Whitey Bury Your Gays Obviously Evil Bring My Brown Pants Unresolved Sexual Tension Pay Evil unto Evil Arch-Enemy Aside Glance Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Stuff Blowing Up Romantic Comedy Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Red Right Hand Epic Fail Danny Peary Cult Movies List Guile Hero Not Using the "Z" Word Smug Snake Insult Backfire Drugs Are Bad Drives Like Crazy Grey and Gray Morality Psychological Thriller Badass Grandpa Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Soft Glass The Chick Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? The Cameo All Men Are Perverts Calling the Old Man Out For Want of a Nail Vitriolic Best Buds Deliberate Values Dissonance Alliterative Name One-Man Army Wham Shot Rule of Funny Spiteful Spit Reality Is Unrealistic Early Installment Weirdness Book-Ends Auto Erotica Sequel Hook Continuity Nod Poor Communication Kills Suddenly SHOUTING! Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Imagine Spot The '60s Didn't Think This Through Our Zombies Are Different The Load Determinator aka: The Determinator Hero Antagonist Cloudcuckoolander The Starscream The Remake Nothing Is Scarier Beauty Is Never Tarnished Blood from the Mouth Mistaken for Gay Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Reality Has No Subtitles Gratuitous English Real Life Fish out of Water Alas, Poor Villain Blackmail Immune to Bullets Shout-Out Major Injury Underreaction "Awesome McCool" Name Your Cheating Heart Intrepid Reporter French Films Undying Loyalty From Nobody to Nightmare Film Noir And I Must Scream Brick Joke Famous Last Words From Bad to Worse Jerkass Cruel and Unusual Death Laughing Mad Bond Villain Stupidity Stealth Pun Villain Protagonist Straight Gay The Lost Lenore The Great Depression Cool Shades Composite Character Black Comedy Rape Death by Adaptation Improbable Aiming Skills Mexican Standoff Really Gets Around Hell Is That Noise Suspiciously Similar Substitute For the Evulz Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Stealth Hi/Bye