Tropescilloscope: Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas

Mothers are important to everybody, even villains. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Is a Crapshoot Humiliation Conga Laughing Mad Comically Missing the Point The Stinger Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Product Placement Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Retcon Mr. Fanservice Big Bad Developing Doomed Characters Pay Evil unto Evil Abhorrent Admirer Daylight Horror I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Creative Closing Credits Exactly What It Says on the Tin Reality Has No Subtitles Suspiciously Similar Substitute Adapted Out Precision F-Strike Token Minority Eureka Moment The Alleged Car Evil vs. Evil Gone Horribly Right Pre-Mortem One-Liner Evil Brit Silence Is Golden The Faceless Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Punny Name The Ditz Vampire Fiction Rewatch Bonus Almost Kiss Cowboy Cop Very Loosely Based on a True Story Captain Obvious Badass Bookworm I Need a Freaking Drink Mama Bear Only One Name Bring My Brown Pants Dirty Coward Fanservice Mythology Gag Does Not Like Shoes Evil Sounds Deep Disguised in Drag Throwing Your Sword Always Works Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Death by Irony Took a Level in Badass Would Hurt a Child The End... Or Is It? 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Market-Based Title Distracted by the Sexy Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience I'm a Humanitarian Soundtrack Dissonance For the Evulz Crazy Jealous Guy Pimped-Out Dress Accidental Murder Gory Discretion Shot Grey and Gray Morality Bavarian Fire Drill The Dreaded Pyrrhic Victory Jerk Jock Red Eyes, Take Warning Meaningful Name Dark Reprise Suddenly SHOUTING! Off with His Head! Gender Flip "Shaggy Dog" Story Demonic Possession Easily Forgiven Sci-Fi Horror Cool Guns You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Made of Iron Sequel Escalation Naïve Newcomer Blood from the Mouth Retirony NO INDOOR VOICE Index of Film Westerns Drill Sergeant Nasty Aluminum Christmas Trees Cool Shades Ungrateful Bastard Evil Plan Rousing Speech Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Mighty Whitey Dramatic Gun Cock Naked People Are Funny Fire-Forged Friends Large Ham Madness Mantra Death by Sex Shell-Shocked Veteran Would Hit a Girl Scenery Gorn Pragmatic Adaptation Villain Protagonist Needs Wiki Magic Love A God Am I Advertised Extra As Himself Refuge in Audacity Playing Gertrude Properly Paranoid The Hero Bowdlerise Man on Fire Annoying Younger Sibling Hell Is That Noise And Starring Well-Intentioned Extremist Anti-Villain Jerk with a Heart of Gold Cat Scare In the Back Babies Ever After Jump Scare Jitter Cam Antagonist Title Fan Disservice Russian Films Shoot the Shaggy Dog Left the Background Music On Air-Vent Passageway It Can Think Chekhov's Skill Brother–Sister Incest Scenery Porn Eye Scream As Long as It Sounds Foreign Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Sole Survivor Defrosting Ice Queen Mood Whiplash You Killed My Father Film Noir Index Straight Gay Badass Longcoat A Date with Rosie Palms Fainting Offscreen Moment of Awesome Offscreen Teleportation Informed Ability Unspoken Plan Guarantee Belligerent Sexual Tension Unwitting Instigator of Doom The '90s Black Best Friend Animal Motifs Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Gratuitous English Early-Bird Cameo Determinator aka: The Determinator Artistic License – History Closed Circle Hollywood Law Five-Man Band Tempting Fate Ass Shove How We Got Here Bloodier and Gorier Insane Troll Logic Ambiguous Ending Decoy Protagonist Television Movie Index Pretty Little Headshots folderlabel Creator Cameo Henpecked Husband Bound and Gagged Deus ex Machina Red Shirt Superhero Handicapped Badass The Cavalry Skewed Priorities Dutch Angle Moment Killer Earn Your Happy Ending Let's Get Dangerous! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Instant Death Bullet Big Eater Those Two Guys Your Head A-Splode Documentary German Films Dissonant Serenity Implacable Man Agony of the Feet Homage Never Found the Body Paper-Thin Disguise Adaptation Dye-Job It Will Never Catch On Shout-Out Super Strength Training Montage Ax-Crazy Chekhov's Gun Shower Scene Wicked Cultured Names to Run Away from Really Fast Card-Carrying Villain Composite Character Authority Equals Asskicking Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Vomit Indiscretion Shot Heel–Face Turn Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Humans Are Bastards The Quiet One Groin Attack The Brute Guile Hero Dies Wide Open Dirty Cop Villain Opening Scene Epic Fail Beard of Evil Sacrificial Lion O.O.C. Is Serious Business She Cleans Up Nicely Adaptational Villainy Faking the Dead Worthy Opponent Pragmatic Villainy Fourth Date Marriage From Bad to Worse Only in It for the Money Love at First Sight Everyone Has Standards Australian Movies Once More, with Clarity! The Casanova Double Entendre Small Name, Big Ego Didn't Think This Through Never My Fault Unreliable Narrator Combat Pragmatist Historical In-Joke Music Stories My God, What Have I Done? Adult Fear Call-Back Never Trust a Trailer Defiant to the End Mooks Batman Gambit Eiffel Tower Effect Science Fiction Films Truth in Television All Men Are Perverts Action Survivor May–December Romance Coming-of-Age Story And I Must Scream Line-of-Sight Name Rule of Funny Irony Actor Allusion Bad "Bad Acting" Peek-a-Boo Corpse Horror Comedy You Have Failed Me Stealth Pun Rule of Three Self-Deprecation Imagine Spot Hypocrite Totally Radical Deadpan Snarker 20 Minutes into the Future Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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