Tropescilloscope: Dull Surprise

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