Tropescilloscope: Epic Movie

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Is a Crapshoot Facial Horror timeperiod Scenery Gorn Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Fourth Date Marriage Would Hit a Girl Disney Villain Death Depraved Bisexual Catch-Phrase What Happened to the Mouse? Unreliable Narrator The Alcoholic Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Becoming the Mask Freudian Excuse Silence Is Golden Mind Screw Artistic License – Military Science Fiction Films Kill 'em All Star-Crossed Lovers Italian Films An Arm and a Leg Suspiciously Specific Denial Male Frontal Nudity Mighty Whitey Beware the Nice Ones Broken Bird Conspicuous CG Honor Before Reason Horror Comedy Creepy Child Running Gag Parental Neglect Your Head A-Splode Badass in a Nice Suit He Who Fights Monsters Meaningful Echo Married to the Job The Film of the Book Intrepid Reporter The Lancer Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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And Starring Demoted to Extra Anyone Can Die Names to Run Away from Really Fast Death by Sex Only a Flesh Wound Imagine Spot Good Is Not Nice Taking the Bullet Actor Allusion Villain with Good Publicity Public Domain Feature Films Beauty Is Never Tarnished Double-Meaning Title Even Evil Has Loved Ones Soft Glass Took a Level in Jerkass Intergenerational Friendship World of Ham Ironic Echo Mr. Fanservice A Date with Rosie Palms Only Known by Their Nickname Loophole Abuse Gilligan Cut Heroic Sacrifice Time Skip Mystery and Detective Films Gorn Break the Haughty My Greatest Failure Re-Cut Stealth Pun Card-Carrying Villain Heterosexual Life-Partners Animated Credits Opening Black Best Friend Sequel Escalation Psychopathic Manchild Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Hollywood Law Sir Swears-a-Lot Dwindling Party Cluster F-Bomb Failed a Spot Check Bond Villain Stupidity All Girls Want Bad Boys The Smurfette Principle Tap on the Head The '80s Deconstruction MacGuffin Large Ham Anachronic Order Word of God Half the Man He Used to Be Mr. Exposition The Stoic Unspoken Plan Guarantee Evil Is Petty Drowning My Sorrows Destination Defenestration Villain Song Final Girl Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Idiot Ball "The Reason You Suck" Speech Friend to All Children Canon Foreigner Leaning on the Fourth Wall Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Mercy Kill Room Full of Crazy Dark Reprise The Bad Guy Wins Mexican Standoff Calling the Old Man Out Adaptational Villainy Fatal Flaw Dirty Cop Call-Forward Lock and Load Montage Russian Films Self-Deprecation Central Theme Villain Opening Scene The Stoner Agony of the Feet The Ghost Creative Closing Credits Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Slashed Throat Genre Throwback Hypocrite Greater-Scope Villain Better to Die than Be Killed Daylight Horror Twist Ending Rape as Drama Killed Mid-Sentence Overly Long Gag Never Found the Body Leitmotif Downer Ending Adaptation Expansion It's Personal Fat Bastard Undying Loyalty Shipper on Deck Alliterative Name Character Development Dirty Coward Chiaroscuro Cool Old Lady No Ending Insistent Terminology Mooks No-Sell Scary Black Man The Dragon Non-Indicative Name As the Good Book Says... 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Taking You with Me Oh, Crap! Adapted Out Heel Realization Breaking the Fourth Wall Spell My Name with an "S" Jump Scare Canadian Movies Red Oni, Blue Oni Henpecked Husband Mama Bear A Minor Kidroduction Scare Chord Bond One-Liner Title Drop Police are Useless Slasher Movie Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Bilingual Bonus Award-Bait Song Artistic License – Biology Meaningful Name Here We Go Again! Improbable Weapon User Only One Name Spared by the Adaptation Pet the Dog As Long as It Sounds Foreign Ambiguous Disorder Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold NO INDOOR VOICE Motor Mouth