Tropescilloscope: Dull Surprise

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