Tropescilloscope: Drowning My Sorrows

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Fun with Acronyms Adaptation Expansion Four-Temperament Ensemble Humans Are Bastards Mighty Whitey Take a Third Option Wretched Hive Eldritch Abomination The Bad Guy Wins Call-Back Video Credits Anachronism Stew Paper-Thin Disguise As Long as It Sounds Foreign The Lost Lenore Historical-Domain Character Even Evil Has Standards Knight Templar Enemy Mine Yandere The Remake Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality I'm a Humanitarian Poor Communication Kills Zombie Stories The Chessmaster Visual Pun Naked People Are Funny For Want of a Nail Beauty Is Never Tarnished Politically Incorrect Villain Fingore Suddenly SHOUTING! Karma Houdini Alliterative Name Defrosting Ice Queen British Films Evil Sounds Deep Shown Their Work Parental Substitute Big Bad Tap on the Head A.I. Is a Crapshoot Vitriolic Best Buds Blood from the Mouth Precision F-Strike Retirony Intergenerational Friendship Redshirt Army Sinister Minister Chiaroscuro Fatal Family Photo Hope Spot Annoying Younger Sibling Spared by the Adaptation Bald of Evil A Date with Rosie Palms Foreshadowing Easily Forgiven Double-Meaning Title Hair-Trigger Temper Groin Attack Deliberately Monochrome Slap-Slap-Kiss Card-Carrying Villain Skewed Priorities Dumb Blonde Soft Glass Love Triangle 20 Minutes into the Future Ripped from the Headlines Re-Cut Serial Killer Adaptation Dye-Job Parental Neglect For the Evulz Race Against the Clock Sealed Evil in a Can As You Know Bi the Way Dramatic Irony Becoming the Mask Self-Deprecation Monumental Damage Combat Pragmatist Took a Level in Jerkass Psychopathic Manchild Brick Joke Russian Films Defiant to the End Handicapped Badass All There in the Manual Dissonant Serenity Chewing the Scenery Deal with the Devil Slashed Throat Plucky Comic Relief All Girls Want Bad Boys Bloodier and Gorier Canadian Movies Extremely Short Timespan Age Lift Funny Background Event Spanner in the Works Red Shirt Based on a True Story Heroic Sacrifice Catch-Phrase I Have Your Wife Neck Lift Bad "Bad Acting" Ax-Crazy Boom, Headshot! Alas, Poor Villain You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Funny Foreigner Gainax Ending Good Is Not Nice Evil Is Hammy Greater-Scope Villain As Himself Pragmatic Villainy Black Best Friend Redemption Equals Death Fake Shemp Diabolus ex Machina Film Noir Index Whole Plot Reference Mistaken for Gay Actor Allusion Small Name, Big Ego Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Fatal Flaw Getting Crap Past the Radar Soundtrack Dissonance Bait-and-Switch Heroic BSoD Cool Shades Not So Stoic Cluster F-Bomb Silence Is Golden Batman Gambit Didn't Think This Through Eiffel Tower Effect Villain Song Bullying a Dragon Never Trust a Trailer Historical In-Joke Superhero Riddle for the Ages Up to Eleven Demoted to Extra Man on Fire Badass Normal The Great Depression Ship Tease Frame-Up Trailers Always Spoil Setting Update Foil Neck Snap Freeze-Frame Bonus Dark and Troubled Past Badass Bookworm Biopic Calling the Old Man Out Gory Discretion Shot Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Everyone Has Standards You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Insistent Terminology Facial Horror Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Imagine Spot Large Ham Manly Tears Pre-Mortem One-Liner Cool Guns Adults Are Useless Deadpan Snarker Children Are Innocent Obviously Evil Big "NO!" A Father to His Men Arc Words Black Comedy The Dog Bites Back Disney Death One Steve Limit Mama Bear Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Important Haircut Victoria's Secret Compartment Early Installment Weirdness Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Suspiciously Similar Substitute The '70s The Power of Love Reality Has No Subtitles Rule of Funny Logo Joke No Name Given It Can Think Faux Affably Evil Bound and Gagged Historical Villain Upgrade Totally Radical An Arm and a Leg Disguised in Drag Spell My Name with an "S" More Dakka Damsel in Distress Red Right Hand Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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The Sociopath Protagonist Title Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Covers Always Lie Adaptation Distillation Retired Badass Rule of Three Random Events Plot Dressing as the Enemy Evil Laugh Reality Ensues Historical Hero Upgrade No Celebrities Were Harmed Insult Backfire Male Gaze Breaking the Fourth Wall The '90s Police are Useless Vacation Films Cool Old Guy Arranged Marriage And the Adventure Continues Villain Protagonist Kill 'em All Hollywood Law Catapult Nightmare Playing Gertrude Hoist by His Own Petard Daylight Horror Deus ex Machina Token Minority Determinator Not So Above It All Beta Couple Advertised Extra And I Must Scream Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Body Horror Hooker with a Heart of Gold Ms. Fanservice The Cavalry What the Hell, Hero? It Will Never Catch On Chekhov's Gun The Hero Bottomless Magazines Line-of-Sight Name Really Gets Around Translation Convention Japanese Films Chekhov's Skill Air-Vent Passageway How We Got Here Black and Gray Morality Dirty Coward Suspiciously Specific Denial Even Evil Has Loved Ones Bloody Hilarious Abusive Parents Homage Get Out! Ghost Fiction Despair Event Horizon Romantic False Lead Stuff Blowing Up Make It Look Like an Accident Daddy's Girl Sacrificial Lion Eye Scream Jerkass Eyepatch of Power Expy Australian Movies Obfuscating Stupidity N-Word Privileges Dies Wide Open In the Back Unspoken Plan Guarantee Hell Is That Noise Smoking Is Cool Have a Gay Old Time Interrupted Suicide Scenery Porn Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Casting Gag Pet the Dog Cat Scare Shout-Out An Axe to Grind Mind Screw My God, What Have I Done? Gorn Actually Pretty Funny Hate Sink Non-Indicative Name Pay Evil unto Evil Blood Knight What Happened to the Mouse? 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Disney Villain Death Word of God Sole Survivor Shipper on Deck Broken Bird Evil-Detecting Dog Drill Sergeant Nasty Morality Pet Posthumous Character The End... Or Is It? Heel–Face Turn Disproportionate Retribution Stepford Smiler Dirty Old Man Stealth Hi/Bye Dark Is Not Evil Laughing Mad Maybe Ever After Call-Forward Heel Realization Femme Fatale Character Development Left the Background Music On Men Are the Expendable Gender Truth in Television Novelization Male Frontal Nudity Jerkass Has a Point Reality Is Unrealistic Bunny-Ears Lawyer The Chick Beware the Nice Ones Amusing Injuries Earn Your Happy Ending The Mafia An Aesop Babies Ever After Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Due to the Dead Roaring Rampage of Revenge Improbable Aiming Skills Music Stories Epic Movie Evil Plan Badass in a Nice Suit Armor-Piercing Question BFG Almost Kiss Cain and Abel Sir Swears-a-Lot True Companions Adaptational Heroism Creative Closing Credits Villain Ball Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds O.O.C. Is Serious Business Mr. Fanservice Never My Fault Made of Explodium The Stinger Dutch Angle Brother–Sister Incest Jitter Cam The Smurfette Principle Nothing Is Scarier Jerk Jock Meaningful Echo Hidden Depths Unreliable Narrator Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Fiery Redhead Your Cheating Heart Married to the Job War Is Hell Gone Horribly Right Shoot the Shaggy Dog Super Strength Costume Porn Death by Adaptation Creator Cameo Not So Different Heroes Want Redheads Deliberate Values Dissonance Intrepid Reporter After the End Adult Fear Fanservice Extra Madness Mantra Throwing Your Sword Always Works No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Mercy Kill Ambiguous Disorder Camp Gay Time Skip Wicked Cultured Hollywood Darkness Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Cassandra Truth Silent Movie Adaptational Badass Double Entendre Villain with Good Publicity May–December Romance Screw the Money, I Have Rules! The Ace Epic Fail Vampire Fiction Only Sane Man Meet Cute Guile Hero "Well Done, Son!" Guy Bavarian Fire Drill Adorkable Offscreen Moment of Awesome Star-Crossed Lovers Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Henpecked Husband Destination Defenestration Kubrick Stare In Medias Res Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Kill It with Fire Artistic License – History Not Using the "Z" Word Race Lift Running Gag Leitmotif Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Christmas Movies Index Action Genre Lampshade Hanging Cowboy Cop Unresolved Sexual Tension Revenge Mythology Gag Genre Throwback "Where Are They Now?" 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Gold Digger Does This Remind You of Anything? Gratuitous English Chase Scene Drives Like Crazy Ambiguously Gay Put on a Bus Did Not Get the Girl The Casanova Needs Wiki Magic Love Too Dumb to Live Determinator aka: The Determinator Shower Scene Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Crazy Jealous Guy Twist Ending Moment Killer Film Series Bittersweet Ending Together in Death Rule of Symbolism Action Girl Horror Comedy Martial Arts Movie All There in the Script Empathic Environment Artistic License – Biology Captain Ersatz It's All About Me It's Personal Lighter and Softer Jerk with a Heart of Gold Your Head A-Splode Peek-a-Boo Corpse Ass Shove "Shaggy Dog" Story Not What It Looks Like Nice Hat Blatant Lies Fanservice Market-Based Title Let's Get Dangerous! Every Car Is a Pinto Unwitting Instigator of Doom Gender Flip Only in It for the Money Red Herring Bad Boss Heterosexual Life-Partners Obstructive Bureaucrat Belligerent Sexual Tension Pyrrhic Victory Anachronic Order Training Montage Real Life Green-Eyed Monster Cold-Blooded Torture Public Domain Feature Films Tranquil Fury Fourth Date Marriage Pretty in Mink Adaptation Name Change The Ghost Department of Redundancy Department Wham Shot Malevolent Masked Men The Voiceless Sanity Slippage Domestic Abuse Made of Iron Danny Peary Cult Movies List Room Full of Crazy Dramatic Gun Cock Romantic Comedy Dirty Cop The Reveal Punch-Clock Villain You Have Failed Me Kids Are Cruel Only One Name Scare Chord The Cameo Sports Stories Final Girl Animal Title Index Central Theme Face–Heel Turn Major Injury Underreaction Kick the Dog Hero Antagonist Badass Boast Comically Missing the Point Happily Married Eagleland Off with His Head! Fate Worse than Death "The Reason You Suck" Speech Expository Hairstyle Change Hypocrite Broken Pedestal Bowdlerise World of Ham Index of Film Westerns Thriller Honor Before Reason Bloodless Carnage MacGuffin Famous Last Words Ominous Latin Chanting Wrong Genre Savvy Mystery and Detective Films Evil vs. Evil I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Book-Ends Authority Equals Asskicking Spiteful Spit Exactly What It Says on the Tin Coming-of-Age Story Black Comedy Rape Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Sassy Black Woman Arch-Enemy Motor Mouth Overly Long Gag Anguished Declaration of Love Tempting Fate Better to Die than Be Killed Sequel Hook Title Drop Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other B-Movie Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Does Not Like Shoes Very Loosely Based on a True Story Crapsack World Berserk Button Death of a Child Five-Man Band Smug Snake Bond Villain Stupidity Straight Gay Anti-Villain Adaptational Attractiveness Big Bad Duumvirate Manipulative Bastard Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Ambiguous Ending The '60s NO INDOOR VOICE