Tropescilloscope: Failed a Spot Check

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The Cameo Setting Update Visual Pun Immune to Bullets Dark and Troubled Past Death by Irony Bad "Bad Acting" Scenery Gorn Hollywood Law Developing Doomed Characters The Film of the Book Spiteful Spit Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Credits Gag Rule of Funny Hidden Depths Face Death with Dignity Did Not Get the Girl Police Brutality Unspoken Plan Guarantee Romantic False Lead Kick the Son of a Bitch Villain Protagonist Genre Shift Fake Shemp Woman in White Redemption Equals Death Narrator The Hero Dies Sacrificial Lion Posthumous Character The Load Award-Bait Song Stalker with a Crush Adaptational Heroism French Films Comically Missing the Point One-Word Title Ass Shove Mythology Gag Mystery and Detective Films Naïve Newcomer Psycho for Hire Meaningful Background Event Handicapped Badass Bald of Evil My Beloved Smother And the Adventure Continues Armor-Piercing Question Deconstruction Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Sexy Discretion Shot Dirty Coward Fire-Forged Friends Real Life Rule of Three No Name Given Those Two Guys Reasonable Authority Figure Big Bad Drill Sergeant Nasty Imagine Spot Combat Pragmatist Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Canadian Movies Guile Hero Artistic License – Law Bolivian Army Ending Refuge in Audacity Fun with Acronyms The Bad Guy Wins Drugs Are Bad Military and Warfare Films Informed Ability From Bad to Worse Plucky Comic Relief The '70s Show Within a Show Our Zombies Are Different Back from the Dead Evil Brit Intrepid Reporter Vomit Discretion Shot Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Hell Is That Noise The Remake Missing Mom Knight Templar Only One Name Cool Old Lady Laughing Mad Hate Sink Would Hit a Girl Kick the Dog Faking the Dead Major Injury Underreaction Room Full of Crazy Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold From Nobody to Nightmare Coming-of-Age Story Arranged Marriage Cruel and Unusual Death He Who Fights Monsters Oh, Crap! Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Poor Communication Kills Never Trust a Trailer O.O.C. Is Serious Business Hooker with a Heart of Gold You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Fate Worse than Death Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Left the Background Music On Despair Event Horizon Recycled IN SPACE! Adaptation Distillation Monumental Damage Retcon Deliberate Values Dissonance Red Eyes, Take Warning Bond One-Liner Adaptation Name Change Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Mama Bear Knife Nut Rewatch Bonus Love at First Sight Black Comedy The Un-Reveal Your Head A-Splode Neck Lift In Name Only Police are Useless Femme Fatale Real Life Writes the Plot "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Gone Horribly Right Properly Paranoid Time Skip Parental Abandonment Leave the Camera Running As Himself The Stinger Riddle for the Ages Alpha Bitch Men Are the Expendable Gender Dual Wielding Blood Knight Black and Gray Morality Bad Boss Chekhov's Gunman Parental Substitute Fiery Redhead Skewed Priorities Ghost Fiction Agony of the Feet Taking the Bullet Dramatic Irony There Is No Kill Like Overkill Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Revenge Sequel Hook The Hero Trailers Always Spoil Parental Incest Shirtless Scene Mugging the Monster Four-Temperament Ensemble Papa Wolf Not So Stoic Serial Killer Documentary "Awesome McCool" Name Protagonist Title Deliberately Monochrome Unusual Euphemism Flipping the Bird Country Matters The Mole Bare Your Midriff Enemy Mine Rule of Symbolism Market-Based Title Be Careful What You Wish For You Killed My Father Bi the Way The Dog Bites Back Totally Radical Wham Shot The Chessmaster Awesome, but Impractical Artistic License – Military 20 Minutes into the Future The Bully Stepford Smiler Jerk with a Heart of Gold Only in It for the Money Those Two Bad Guys Kids Are Cruel Silence Is Golden Tempting Fate Bond Villain Stupidity Product Placement Daylight Horror Anyone Can Die I Need a Freaking Drink Chiaroscuro The End... Or Is It? 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Even Evil Has Loved Ones It Can Think B-Movie Evil Counterpart Improbable Weapon User No Antagonist Gender Flip Kill It with Fire Small Name, Big Ego Offscreen Teleportation This Is Gonna Suck Madness Mantra Red Herring Didn't Think This Through Morality Pet Animal Title Index Took a Level in Jerkass Department of Redundancy Department Half the Man He Used to Be Laser-Guided Karma Book-Ends Artistic License – Gun Safety Exact Words Death Glare As You Know Guns Akimbo Every Car Is a Pinto The Oner Air-Vent Passageway Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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Covers Always Lie Batman Gambit Damsel in Distress The Sociopath Token Minority The '80s Antagonist Title Throwing Your Sword Always Works Insane Troll Logic Let's Get Dangerous! Biopic Gilligan Cut Genre Savvy Fatal Flaw Reality Is Unrealistic Noodle Incident A Date with Rosie Palms Historical Hero Upgrade Slap-Slap-Kiss Freudian Excuse Hollywood Darkness Big-Bad Ensemble Homage Victoria's Secret Compartment Closed Circle Death of a Child Film Noir Index Pretty Little Headshots Cold-Blooded Torture Jerk Jock Intergenerational Friendship Flashback I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Not Even Bothering with the Accent Frame-Up Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Broken Pedestal Foreshadowing Blatant Lies Stealth Hi/Bye Off-into-the-Distance Ending Red Shirt Children Are Innocent Put on a Bus Science Fiction Films One Steve Limit The Vamp Cool Shades Villainous Breakdown Freeze-Frame Bonus Sadistic Choice Famous Last Words Corpsing All Just a Dream Historical Villain Upgrade No Ending Dogged Nice Guy Bloody Hilarious Crapsack World Bar Brawl Needs Wiki Magic Love Offscreen Moment of Awesome Training Montage Zombie Stories Character Development As the Good Book Says... 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Tap on the Head Loads and Loads of Characters Demonic Possession The Big Guy Villain Song Double-Meaning Title Deus ex Machina Fanservice Big Brother Instinct Funny Background Event Ambiguous Disorder Costume Porn Mighty Whitey Male Frontal Nudity "Shaggy Dog" Story Cowboy Cop Jump Scare Honor Before Reason Names to Run Away from Really Fast Age Lift Badass Longcoat Danny Peary Cult Movies List Hero Antagonist Insistent Terminology Neck Snap Blood from the Mouth MacGuffin Evil Sounds Deep Exactly What It Says on the Tin Adult Fear I Have Your Wife Rich Bitch Historical-Domain Character Gory Discretion Shot Dark Is Not Evil Amusing Injuries Beard of Evil Ripped from the Headlines Taking You with Me Facial Horror No OSHA Compliance Spared by the Adaptation Stuff Blowing Up Mind Screw Slashed Throat I Did What I Had to Do Vitriolic Best Buds No Celebrities Were Harmed N-Word Privileges Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Screw This, I'm Outta Here! May–December Romance Better to Die than Be Killed Australian Movies Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Historical In-Joke Race Lift Dies Wide Open All There in the Script Tagline Dramatic Gun Cock Dressing as the Enemy Ambiguously Gay Tranquil Fury Dirty Old Man Undying Loyalty Bland-Name Product Dumb Blonde Mr. Exposition Peek-a-Boo Corpse Green-Eyed Monster The Smurfette Principle Arc Words Race Against the Clock The Smart Guy Big Applesauce Disproportionate Retribution Creative Closing Credits Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Shout-Out Daddy's Girl Vacation Films The '60s Mooks Belligerent Sexual Tension Domestic Abuse Yandere Corrupt Corporate Executive Retired Badass Eyepatch of Power Ax-Crazy Martial Arts Movie Suddenly SHOUTING! Overprotective Dad Villain Ball Horror Films The X of Y Breaking the Fourth Wall Shown Their Work Shower Scene Pyrrhic Victory Get Out! 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