Tropescilloscope: Eagleland

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