Tropescilloscope: Eureka Moment

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Chekhov's Skill Spanner in the Works Broken Bird As Long as It Sounds Foreign Get Out! Exactly What It Says on the Tin Spell My Name with an "S" Easily Forgiven Disguised in Drag Vomit Indiscretion Shot Ass Shove My God, What Have I Done? Unreliable Narrator La Résistance Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Rule of Symbolism Empathic Environment Martial Arts Movie Shut Up, Hannibal! Meet Cute Fainting Sci-Fi Horror A Father to His Men Non-Indicative Name Kids Are Cruel Awesome, but Impractical Evil vs. Evil Training Montage Hope Spot Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Fat Bastard Bury Your Gays Driven to Suicide Brutal Honesty Guile Hero Recycled IN SPACE! Continuity Nod Manic Pixie Dream Girl Bunny-Ears Lawyer The Hero Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Translation Convention It's Personal Manipulative Bastard Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Groin Attack Plucky Comic Relief Laser-Guided Karma Aluminum Christmas Trees I Did What I Had to Do Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Noodle Incident Face Death with Dignity Coming-of-Age Story Hong Kong Films Beauty Is Never Tarnished Vomit Discretion Shot Ominous Latin Chanting Christmas Movies Index Spiritual Successor Re-Cut Earn Your Happy Ending Back from the Dead Redshirt Army Really Gets Around Deconstruction Catapult Nightmare Market-Based Title Slashed Throat Woman Scorned Grievous Bottley Harm Ironic Echo You Killed My Father Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Casting Gag Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Rule of Cool Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Villain Opening Scene Men Are the Expendable Gender Retired Badass Spiteful Spit Bond Villain Stupidity Madness Mantra Say My Name One Steve Limit Chekhov's Gun Match Cut Jump Scare Mighty Whitey Distracted by the Sexy Accidental Misnaming Evil Laugh Lock and Load Montage Whole Plot Reference The Place Foregone Conclusion Hooker with a Heart of Gold Extremely Short Timespan A God Am I Man on Fire The Alleged Car Bond One-Liner Animal Motifs Historical In-Joke Artistic License – Law Green-Eyed Monster Wham Line Dark Action Girl Overprotective Dad Unusual Euphemism Determinator aka: The Determinator The Brute Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Bloodless Carnage Fish out of Water Black Comedy Neck Snap Beware the Nice Ones Amoral Attorney "Awesome McCool" Name Anti-Hero Playing Gertrude Adaptation Dye-Job Batman Gambit Pragmatic Adaptation Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil The Quiet One Woman in White Age Lift Blood Knight Not Quite Dead Rasputinian Death Bare Your Midriff Bloodier and Gorier Hollywood Law Would Hit a Girl Shirtless Scene Adults Are Useless Off-into-the-Distance Ending Thriller Only a Flesh Wound Fantastic Racism More Dakka Smug Snake Expy Pre-Mortem One-Liner Needs Wiki Magic Love Dark Is Not Evil I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Kill 'em All The Bully Pet the Dog Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Index of Film Westerns Ambiguously Gay Rich Bitch Those Two Bad Guys Gold Digger Ambiguous Ending Bad Boss Almost Kiss Black and Gray Morality Department of Redundancy Department Science Fiction Films For the Evulz Fatal Flaw Costume Porn Every Car Is a Pinto Implacable Man Eldritch Abomination Have a Gay Old Time Ship Tease Scare Chord Dwindling Party Taking the Bullet Naked People Are Funny Slasher Smile May–December Romance The Power of Love Cool Car Your Head A-Splode Hoist by His Own Petard Creator Cameo Documentary Blackmail Undying Loyalty Fanservice Loads and Loads of Characters Badass Longcoat N-Word Privileges No-Holds-Barred Beatdown The Lost Lenore Heroic BSoD Enemy Mine Honor Before Reason Stepford Smiler Bloody Hilarious You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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