Tropescilloscope: Eagleland

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Is Serious Business Almost Kiss Instant Death Bullet Bar Brawl Super Strength Green-Eyed Monster Eagleland Ms. Fanservice Badass Boast Fainting folderlabel Biopic Names to Run Away from Really Fast Loads and Loads of Characters Well-Intentioned Extremist Break the Cutie All There in the Manual Token Minority The Film of the Book One-Man Army The Load Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Expy Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Developing Doomed Characters Villain Song Dutch Angle Bond One-Liner Real Life All There in the Script Ungrateful Bastard The Alleged Car Australian Movies Cat Scare Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Curb-Stomp Battle An Arm and a Leg Broken Bird All Girls Want Bad Boys Cluster F-Bomb Gender Flip It Can Think Hypocrite Sports Stories Silent Movie Berserk Button Cat Fight Large Ham Non-Indicative Name Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Slasher Smile Nothing Is Scarier Auto Erotica Camp Gay Fatal Family Photo Stealth Hi/Bye Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Antagonist Title Badass Longcoat Bond Villain Stupidity Science Fiction Films Knight Templar Suspiciously Specific Denial Stock Footage You Have Failed Me The Stoner Hypocritical Humor Alpha Bitch Action Girl In Name Only Fiery Redhead The Mole Parental Substitute Hero of Another Story Evil Is Hammy Determinator Dual Wielding Taking the Bullet The Dreaded This Is Gonna Suck For the Evulz Very Loosely Based on a True Story Too Dumb to Live Recycled IN SPACE! Madness Mantra Rewatch Bonus Spell My Name with an "S" Air-Vent Passageway The Smurfette Principle Pay Evil unto Evil Training Montage Grievous Bottley Harm Early Installment Weirdness Soundtrack Dissonance Pragmatic Adaptation Zombie Stories As Himself Damsel in Distress Totally Radical Adaptational Badass Bloodless Carnage Vitriolic Best Buds Big Eater The Hero Dies Easily Forgiven Pretty Little Headshots The Smart Guy "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Papa Wolf Dropped a Bridge on Him Badass Normal Race Against the Clock Evil-Detecting Dog Scenery Gorn Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Badass Grandpa Never My Fault Twist Ending Our Zombies Are Different Stalker with a Crush Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Vomit Indiscretion Shot Sir Swears-a-Lot No-Sell Abhorrent Admirer Star-Crossed Lovers Hollywood Darkness Action Genre The Vamp Batman Gambit Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Serious Business Bound and Gagged Moment Killer Even Evil Has Loved Ones Adaptation Dye-Job Redemption Equals Death Epic Fail Dark Action Girl Tranquil Fury Badass in a Nice Suit Alas, Poor Villain Contrived Coincidence Pretty in Mink Film Noir Index Mr. Fanservice What You Are in the Dark Establishing Character Moment Humiliation Conga Cassandra Truth "Awesome McCool" Name Facial Horror Fanservice Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Wrong Genre Savvy Disney Villain Death Adaptation Name Change Not What It Looks Like Light Is Not Good Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Anti-Villain Tap on the Head Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Cain and Abel Amoral Attorney Narrator Undying Loyalty A Date with Rosie Palms Meaningful Echo Spared by the Adaptation Redshirt Army Unusual Euphemism Line-of-Sight Name Black Dude Dies First Freudian Excuse Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Smoking Is Cool Expository Hairstyle Change Artistic License – Physics Skewed Priorities Heroic BSoD Fate Worse than Death Eyepatch of Power Spiritual Successor I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Unresolved Sexual Tension Bare Your Midriff Hidden Depths Rousing Speech I Need a Freaking Drink Horror Comedy Heterosexual Life-Partners Funny Foreigner Music Stories Kill 'em All Black Comedy As You Know Villain Ball Author Appeal Stuff Blowing Up Historical-Domain Character Index of Film Westerns Artistic License – Gun Safety Dirty Old Man Bad Boss Chiaroscuro A Minor Kidroduction Leitmotif Darker and Edgier Match Cut Parental Incest Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Not Quite Dead No Celebrities Were Harmed Oh, Crap! Russian Films Does This Remind You of Anything? Poor Communication Kills Shower Scene Same Language Dub Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Blood from the Mouth Authority Equals Asskicking Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Famous Last Words Handicapped Badass Crazy Jealous Guy Death of a Child Mind Screw Product Placement Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Evil Sounds Deep Department of Redundancy Department Eye Scream Jerk with a Heart of Gold Foreshadowing Abusive Parents Cool Old Lady Defiant to the End Anguished Declaration of Love The Brute Retirony Genre Throwback The Big Guy Cool Old Guy Flashback Psychological Thriller World of Ham Deus ex Machina Needs Wiki Magic Love Laughing Mad 20 Minutes into the Future No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Historical In-Joke I Just Shot Marvin in the Face The Chessmaster Face–Heel Turn In Medias Res Not So Different Bi the Way Henpecked Husband Double Entendre Major Injury Underreaction Arranged Marriage Suddenly SHOUTING! Outrun the Fireball You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Guns Akimbo Peek-a-Boo Corpse Amusing Injuries A Father to His Men Those Wacky Nazis Coming-of-Age Story Imagine Spot timeperiod No Ending Deliberately Monochrome Idiot Ball Did Not Get the Girl Killed Mid-Sentence No OSHA Compliance Honor Before Reason For Want of a Nail Apocalypse How Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Hollywood Law Big Bad Take That! Alliterative Name Not So Above It All The Chick Babies Ever After Only a Flesh Wound Love at First Sight Greater-Scope Villain Wicked Cultured Unwitting Instigator of Doom Mexican Standoff Animal Motifs Lampshade Hanging Comically Missing the Point Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Evil Counterpart Continuity Nod Horror Films Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Stealth Pun Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Blatant Lies The Atoner Earn Your Happy Ending Woman in White Adaptation Expansion Insult Backfire Drill Sergeant Nasty Brick Joke Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Aluminum Christmas Trees Politically Incorrect Villain Hair-Trigger Temper Fantasy Films Truth in Television Evil Brit As Long as It Sounds Foreign Unusually Uninteresting Sight Offscreen Teleportation Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Sequel Hook Arc Words Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Man on Fire Action Survivor Shown Their Work Deliberate Values Dissonance Market-Based Title The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Dark Reprise Animated Credits Opening The Stinger Pet the Dog Awesome, but Impractical Red Herring Pyrrhic Victory Heel Realization Pre-Mortem One-Liner Never Found the Body Sci-Fi Horror Villain Opening Scene Butt-Monkey Age Lift Random Events Plot Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Dark and Troubled Past Historical Hero Upgrade Canadian Movies Death by Adaptation Psychopathic Manchild Beta Couple Adapted Out Dirty Coward Missing Mom Foregone Conclusion Rule of Three Bavarian Fire Drill Setting Update Re-Cut Together in Death Dark Is Not Evil Make It Look Like an Accident Foil Black Comedy Rape Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Arch-Enemy Really Gets Around Up to Eleven Dirty Cop Punch-Clock Villain Children Are Innocent My Greatest Failure Screw the Money, I Have Rules! The Dog Bites Back Mooks The Stoic There Is No Kill Like Overkill Artistic License – Geography The '50s The Lost Lenore Red Shirt Kick the Dog Manly Tears Country Matters Disappeared Dad Actually Pretty Funny Aside Glance Fire-Forged Friends Insane Troll Logic Whole Plot Reference Eiffel Tower Effect Drugs Are Bad BFG Retcon Hoist by His Own Petard Hong Kong Films Slap-Slap-Kiss Heroic Sacrifice Self-Deprecation Drowning My Sorrows Extreme Doormat He Knows Too Much Spiteful Spit Ass Shove Pimped-Out Dress Curse Cut Short Hate Sink Crucified Hero Shot Bottomless Magazines Overprotective Dad Big-Bad Ensemble Immune to Bullets Fingore Dramatic Irony Red Oni, Blue Oni Defrosting Ice Queen It's Personal Playing Gertrude A God Am I Deconstruction Dressing as the Enemy Jerk Jock Evil Plan Sanity Slippage Manipulative Bastard Gory Discretion Shot Tempting Fate Word of God Asshole Victim Documentary Artistic License – History Romantic Comedy Evil Cannot Comprehend Good "The Reason You Suck" Speech Men Are the Expendable Gender Time Skip Face Death with Dignity Anti-Hero Unreliable Narrator Hell Is That Noise Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Monumental Damage Mugging the Monster Mystery and Detective Films What Happened to the Mouse? Freeze-Frame Bonus Race Lift Body Horror The Power of Love Cruel and Unusual Death Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome The '90s Morality Pet Ironic Echo Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Off-into-the-Distance Ending Bloodier and Gorier And the Adventure Continues Mighty Whitey Public Domain Feature Films Television Movie Index Eldritch Abomination Danny Peary Cult Movies List You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Didn't Think This Through Artistic License – Law Half the Man He Used to Be Dogged Nice Guy Eureka Moment Double-Meaning Title Overly Long Gag Room Full of Crazy Bilingual Bonus What the Hell, Hero? Kids Are Cruel An Axe to Grind Cloudcuckoolander Deadpan Snarker Older Than They Look My God, What Have I Done? Implacable Man La Résistance Evil vs. Evil Mama Bear Only in It for the Money Big Damn Heroes Insistent Terminology Reasonable Authority Figure Stylistic Suck MacGuffin Bald of Evil Obviously Evil Anyone Can Die Villain Protagonist The Ghost Adaptational Villainy Framing Device Heroes Want Redheads Made of Explodium Red Right Hand Be Careful What You Wish For The Reveal Anachronic Order Sole Survivor The Oner Artistic License – Military Your Head A-Splode Plucky Comic Relief Daddy's Girl Anachronism Stew Bait-and-Switch Driven to Suicide Scary Black Man Broken Pedestal Naked People Are Funny Friend to All Children Taking You with Me Let's Get Dangerous! The Un-Reveal The '60s Femme Fatale Mood Whiplash Novelization Darkest Hour Shirtless Scene Bunny-Ears Lawyer Annoying Younger Sibling Creative Closing Credits Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality And Starring Meet Cute Gone Horribly Right Brutal Honesty Epic Movie All for Nothing The Lancer Real Life Writes the Plot Hooker with a Heart of Gold Obfuscating Stupidity Fantastic Racism Conspicuous CG Unspoken Plan Guarantee Vomit Discretion Shot Revenge Gratuitous English The Bully Worthy Opponent Gilligan Cut Jerkass Gorn Intrepid Reporter The Alcoholic Naïve Newcomer Disproportionate Retribution Bring My Brown Pants Only Sane Man Distracted by the Sexy Chekhov's Gunman Irony One-Word Title Nice Hat The Musical Rated M for Manly No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Only One Name Armor-Piercing Question I Have Your Wife She's Got Legs Rasputinian Death The Sociopath Romantic False Lead Getting Crap Past the Radar Obstructive Bureaucrat Noodle Incident The Starscream Trailers Always Spoil And I Must Scream Wounded Gazelle Gambit Only Known by Their Nickname Determinator aka: The Determinator Captain Obvious Put on a Bus Hero Antagonist The Hero Important Haircut Police Brutality One Steve Limit Thriller Never Trust a Trailer Jump Scare Fan Disservice Take a Third Option How We Got Here Grey and Gray Morality Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Sadistic Choice Chase Scene The Cameo Beard of Evil Casting Gag Boom, Headshot! 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Sealed Evil in a Can Knife Nut Despair Event Horizon Refuge in Audacity Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Mundane Made Awesome Ripped from the Headlines Married to the Job No Name Given Hope Spot The X of Y Show Within a Show Ambiguous Ending Meaningful Name Tagline It Will Never Catch On Bittersweet Ending Award-Bait Song Wretched Hive Drives Like Crazy Blood Knight Every Car Is a Pinto Would Hurt a Child Exactly What It Says on the Tin Ambiguous Disorder The Voiceless Ax-Crazy Have a Gay Old Time Beware the Nice Ones Ghost Fiction '80s Hair Four-Temperament Ensemble Better to Die than Be Killed Mr. Exposition Genre Shift Betty and Veronica Wham Shot Gainax Ending Daylight Horror Big Bad Duumvirate Reality Ensues Paper-Thin Disguise Car Fu Manchild Last-Name Basis Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Fun with Acronyms Bury Your Gays Credits Gag Central Theme Creator Cameo Captain Ersatz In the Back The Great Depression Ambiguously Gay Throwing Your Sword Always Works Once More, with Clarity! 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