Tropescilloscope: Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
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Would Hurt a Child
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here!
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I Have Your Wife
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Anyone Can Die
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Take That!
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All for Nothing
Your Cheating Heart
Heroes Want Redheads
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I Need a Freaking Drink
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Never My Fault
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He Who Fights Monsters
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Hell Is That Noise
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Ghost Fiction
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Developing Doomed Characters
Red Shirt
Pay Evil unto Evil
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La Résistance
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Light Is Not Good
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No Celebrities Were Harmed
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This Is Gonna Suck
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What the Hell, Hero?
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All There in the Script
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Does This Remind You of Anything?
You Have Failed Me
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Say My Name
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The Big Guy
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Beard of Evil
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Actually Pretty Funny
The Mole
All Just a Dream
Darker and Edgier
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Meet Cute
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Death by Adaptation
No Antagonist
Armor-Piercing Question
Shout-Out
Never Trust a Trailer
Deliberate Values Dissonance
Fatal Flaw
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Blood from the Mouth
Jerkass Has a Point
N-Word Privileges
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In the Back
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Too Dumb to Live
Manipulative Bastard
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Antagonist Title
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Not So Different
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Zombie Stories
Wicked Cultured
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Once More, with Clarity!
Taking the Bullet
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!
Straight Gay
Mugging the Monster
Rated M for Manly
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
Did Not Get the Girl
Super Strength
Everyone Has Standards
Our Vampires Are Different
The Vamp
"Shaggy Dog" Story
Evil Is Hammy
Naïve Newcomer
Shell-Shocked Veteran
Lighter and Softer
Groin Attack
Rape as Drama
Genre Savvy
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
Retirony
Country Matters
FaceHeel Turn
Take a Third Option
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Suddenly SHOUTING!
Oh, Crap!
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Even Evil Has Loved Ones
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Serial Killer
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Neck Snap
One Steve Limit
Whole Plot Reference
Agony of the Feet
It Will Never Catch On
Ungrateful Bastard
Chiaroscuro
In Name Only
Actor Allusion
Protagonist Title
Artistic License History
Not So Stoic
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Pragmatic Villainy
Only Sane Man
Police Brutality
Arch-Enemy
Fingore
Paper-Thin Disguise
Artistic License Military
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Fantasy Films
Air-Vent Passageway
Wretched Hive
Parental Neglect
Film Noir Index
Darkest Hour
Call-Forward
Fantastic Racism
Expository Hairstyle Change
Sexy Discretion Shot
Sacrificial Lion
Riddle for the Ages
Demoted to Extra
Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
Didn't Think This Through
Rule of Funny
For Want of a Nail
Grievous Bottley Harm
Gratuitous English
Hidden Depths
Novelization
Skewed Priorities
Ambiguous Ending
In Medias Res
Not What It Looks Like
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Almost Kiss
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Hypocritical Humor
Retcon
Awesome, but Impractical
Token Minority
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
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Bald of Evil
My Beloved Smother
I Did What I Had to Do
Insistent Terminology
Gilligan Cut
Reality Is Unrealistic
Dutch Angle
Australian Movies
Flipping the Bird
Extremely Short Timespan
Punny Name
Gorn
Spiteful Spit
Anachronic Order
Bad "Bad Acting"
Malevolent Masked Men
And the Adventure Continues
She's Got Legs
Slasher Smile
Random Events Plot
Meaningful Echo
Parental Substitute
Eye Scream
Manic Pixie Dream Girl
The Dragon
Toilet Humour
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Cool Old Guy
Card-Carrying Villain
Brutal Honesty
Undying Loyalty
The Ghost
Logo Joke
All Girls Want Bad Boys
Room Full of Crazy
Truth in Television
Corpsing
Recycled IN SPACE!
Evil Plan
As You Know
"Well Done, Son!" Guy
Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer
The Alcoholic
Green-Eyed Monster
Black Dude Dies First
The Stoner
Romantic Comedy
As Himself
Ship Tease
Not Even Bothering with the Accent
Only a Flesh Wound
A God Am I
Crazy-Prepared
Creative Closing Credits
Girl-on-Girl Is Hot
Earn Your Happy Ending
The Remake
Destination Defenestration
Anguished Declaration of Love
The Hero Dies
Adult Fear
Line-of-Sight Name
Adults Are Useless
Fat Bastard
Failed a Spot Check
Four-Temperament Ensemble
Loophole Abuse
Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
Badass Normal
20 Minutes into the Future
Animal Title Index
Brainless Beauty
All Men Are Perverts
Driven to Suicide
Major Injury Underreaction
Bad Boss
Foregone Conclusion
Unresolved Sexual Tension
Revenge
Your Head A-Splode
Due to the Dead
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Apocalypse How
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Posthumous Character
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Motor Mouth
Betty and Veronica
Wham Shot
As the Good Book Says...
Broken Bird
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Parental Incest
Scare Chord
Translation Convention
Jerk Jock
The Cavalry
Lock and Load Montage
The Cameo
Silence Is Golden
Handicapped Badass
Christmas Movies Index
Re-Cut
Psychological Thriller
The Chessmaster
Never Found the Body
Getting Crap Past the Radar
Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
Martial Arts Movie
Race Against the Clock
Camera Abuse
Cat Scare
Demonic Possession
Spiritual Successor
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Lampshade Hanging
Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Taking You with Me
Evil Is Petty
Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Eldritch Abomination
Affectionate Parody
Soundtrack Dissonance
Bring My Brown Pants
Cat Fight
Rule of Three
Drill Sergeant Nasty
Historical Hero Upgrade
Sports Stories
An Aesop
Bittersweet Ending
Framing Device
Celebrity Paradox
Dying Moment of Awesome
Humiliation Conga
Only One Name
Woman Scorned
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Cool Guns
Immune to Bullets
What Happened to the Mouse?
World of Ham
Drives Like Crazy
The Great Depression
Dressing as the Enemy
Improbable Aiming Skills
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Bloodier and Gorier
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Small Name, Big Ego
'80s Hair
Have a Gay Old Time
Gold Digger
Accidental Murder
The Film of the Book
Sanity Slippage
Chewing the Scenery
Sealed Evil in a Can
Word of God
Break the Haughty
Hoist by His Own Petard
Red Herring
Shipper on Deck
Needs Wiki Magic Love
Star-Crossed Lovers
Despair Event Horizon
Costume Porn
Mama Bear
Gory Discretion Shot
Be Careful What You Wish For
Animated Credits Opening
Pretty Little Headshots
Historical Villain Upgrade
Black Comedy
Heel Realization
Badass in a Nice Suit
Overprotective Dad
Foreshadowing
Eiffel Tower Effect
Daylight Horror
Frame-Up
Intergenerational Friendship
Scary Black Man
Mooks
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Villain Song
Honor Before Reason
As Long as It Sounds Foreign
Double Entendre
Big Applesauce
Jerkass
Totally Radical
Large Ham
BFG
Stepford Smiler
The Mafia
After the End
NO INDOOR VOICE
Insult Backfire
Pimped-Out Dress
Ass Shove
Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
Covers Always Lie
Villainous Breakdown
Heterosexual Life-Partners
Men Are the Expendable Gender
Shoot the Shaggy Dog
Freudian Excuse
Exact Words
Same Language Dub
Moment Killer
Break the Cutie
Ripped from the Headlines
Russian Films
Mad Scientist
Deal with the Devil
Shut Up, Hannibal!
Bar Brawl
Big Eater
Those Two Guys
Central Theme
Soft Glass
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Guns Akimbo