Tropescilloscope: Fainting

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Disney Death Death Glare Fanservice Demonic Possession Empathic Environment Cat Scare Agony of the Feet Word of God Advertised Extra Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Defrosting Ice Queen Artistic License – Biology Defiant to the End Only One Name Only a Flesh Wound The Musical Mercy Kill Fat Bastard Super Strength Dropped a Bridge on Him Scenery Porn Logo Joke Not Quite Dead Mr. Fanservice Whole Plot Reference Up to Eleven Foreshadowing Bowdlerise You Killed My Father Anti-Hero Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Coming-of-Age Story Homage Not So Stoic Have a Gay Old Time Karmic Death The Atoner She Cleans Up Nicely Expository Hairstyle Change Belligerent Sexual Tension Ungrateful Bastard This Is Gonna Suck Spiritual Successor Heterosexual Life-Partners Ascended Extra Light Is Not Good Annoying Younger Sibling Creator Cameo Market-Based Title Spanner in the Works Drives Like Crazy Action Girl Dark and Troubled Past All for Nothing Crucified Hero Shot Only Known by Their Nickname Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Awesome, but Impractical Evil Brit Ms. Fanservice Real Life Writes the Plot Decoy Protagonist Needs Wiki Magic Love Fate Worse than Death Hair-Trigger Temper Celebrity Paradox Call-Forward The Sociopath French Films Sadistic Choice Unreliable Narrator A Date with Rosie Palms The Ditz Shirtless Scene Fiery Redhead Beauty Is Never Tarnished Cool Shades Film Series Eyepatch of Power Trailers Always Spoil My Greatest Failure Token Minority Handicapped Badass Stealth Pun Woman Scorned Sacrificial Lion Retirony Catch-Phrase Exact Words Only in It for the Money Unwitting Instigator of Doom Evil-Detecting Dog Blood from the Mouth You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Knight Templar Genre Savvy Rule of Cool Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Department of Redundancy Department Black Comedy Title Drop Never Found the Body The Vamp I Did What I Had to Do Asshole Victim Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Disappeared Dad Rich Bitch Adaptational Villainy What the Hell, Hero? Jerkass Artistic License – Law Male Gaze Totally Radical Cool Old Guy The Bad Guy Wins Cowboy Cop The Power of Love Tempting Fate The Remake Faux Affably Evil The '70s In Medias Res Curb-Stomp Battle Gainax Ending Let's Get Dangerous! Insane Troll Logic "Well Done, Son!" Guy Those Wacky Nazis What You Are in the Dark N-Word Privileges Red Shirt I Just Shot Marvin in the Face The Hero Dies Pimped-Out Dress Fingore The X of Y Adorkable Naked People Are Funny NO INDOOR VOICE Black and Gray Morality Playing Gertrude Improbable Aiming Skills Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Black Dude Dies First Arranged Marriage Developing Doomed Characters Suspiciously Specific Denial Cold-Blooded Torture Distracted by the Sexy Rated M for Manly Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Cool Old Lady Dark Reprise Corrupt Corporate Executive Rasputinian Death Extremely Short Timespan Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Sexy Discretion Shot Hell Is That Noise Time Skip The Smart Guy Overprotective Dad Oh, Crap! Informed Ability He Knows Too Much Our Zombies Are Different Mythology Gag All There in the Manual Mind Screw Those Two Guys Jerk with a Heart of Gold Famous Last Words Obviously Evil Due to the Dead Dogged Nice Guy German Films Death of a Child Danny Peary Cult Movies List Stalker with a Crush Does This Remind You of Anything? Captain Ersatz Pretty in Mink I Need a Freaking Drink Wounded Gazelle Gambit The Lost Lenore Hypocritical Humor La Résistance Russian Films Kill It with Fire The Brute Overly Long Gag Paper-Thin Disguise Insistent Terminology Unresolved Sexual Tension British Films Humans Are Bastards B-Movie Lock and Load Montage Worthy Opponent Implacable Man Non-Indicative Name Rape as Drama The Cameo Revenge "Shaggy Dog" Story Precision F-Strike And Starring Wretched Hive Ghost Fiction Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Reality Is Unrealistic Reality Has No Subtitles Comically Missing the Point Dark Action Girl Neck Lift Cool Guns Unusual Euphemism Obfuscating Stupidity Missing Mom Anti-Villain Cool Car Ragtag Bunch of Misfits timeperiod Beware the Nice Ones All Girls Want Bad Boys Disguised in Drag Children Are Innocent Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Did Not Get the Girl Abusive Parents I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Dramedy Karma Houdini Product Placement Dirty Old Man Science Fiction Films Attempted Rape Loads and Loads of Characters The Film of the Book Evil Is Petty Gratuitous English Take That! Alas, Poor Villain You Have Failed Me Tranquil Fury Cloudcuckoolander Author Avatar Properly Paranoid Kubrick Stare Exactly What It Says on the Tin Ass Shove Even Evil Has Loved Ones Getting Crap Past the Radar Fake Shemp Combat Pragmatist Shipper on Deck Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Expy The Mole The Alcoholic Never My Fault Left the Background Music On Older Than They Look Mexican Standoff Red Eyes, Take Warning It Can Think Break the Cutie The Smurfette Principle Japanese Films Yandere Instant Death Bullet Scare Chord Ship Tease Smoking Is Cool Eiffel Tower Effect Major Injury Underreaction Serious Business Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Determinator aka: The Determinator Flashback Psychopathic Manchild Adaptational Attractiveness Actually Pretty Funny Big Eater It's Personal Mr. Exposition Meaningful Echo Narrator Historical Hero Upgrade Epic Movie Anguished Declaration of Love Ambiguous Disorder Refuge in Audacity Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Does Not Like Shoes Grey and Gray Morality Chase Scene Blood Knight Despair Event Horizon Kick the Dog Artistic License – Geography Big Damn Heroes Off-into-the-Distance Ending Drowning My Sorrows Facial Horror Daylight Horror One-Word Title Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Intergenerational Friendship Artistic License – Physics Animated Credits Opening For Want of a Nail Demoted to Extra The Ghost '80s Hair Sole Survivor Deconstruction Parental Abandonment And I Must Scream Last-Name Basis Psycho for Hire Laser-Guided Karma Pet the Dog Aside Glance Vampire Fiction Hate Sink Not So Above It All Sanity Slippage Laughing Mad Mad Scientist Military and Warfare Films The Dog Bites Back Bring My Brown Pants Sci-Fi Horror Woman in White Match Cut Bittersweet Ending Mugging the Monster Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Adaptation Expansion Setting Update Stepford Smiler Artistic License – Military Bolivian Army Ending Fatal Family Photo Even Evil Has Standards Deadpan Snarker Earn Your Happy Ending Double Entendre Mooks My God, What Have I Done? The Stinger Anachronism Stew Four-Temperament Ensemble May–December Romance Thriller Sports Stories Almost Kiss Those Two Bad Guys Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Shower Scene O.O.C. Is Serious Business Evil vs. Evil Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Cain and Abel From Nobody to Nightmare As Himself Adaptation Dye-Job Author Appeal Pragmatic Adaptation Politically Incorrect Villain Chekhov's Gun Immune to Bullets Dumb Blonde Berserk Button Badass in a Nice Suit Villain with Good Publicity Rule of Three Not Using the "Z" Word Knife Nut "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Took a Level in Jerkass Taking You with Me Brainless Beauty Smug Snake Artistic License – Gun Safety Gold Digger Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Twist Ending Really Gets Around Shut Up, Hannibal! Undying Loyalty Wrong Genre Savvy Your Cheating Heart Psychological Thriller Greater-Scope Villain Our Vampires Are Different Bar Brawl Small Name, Big Ego The Load Fun with Acronyms Deus ex Machina Canon Foreigner Contrived Coincidence Crazy Jealous Guy Papa Wolf Adaptational Badass Hypocrite Pretty Little Headshots Improbable Weapon User Slap-Slap-Kiss Hong Kong Films An Arm and a Leg Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Historical Villain Upgrade Historical-Domain Character Slashed Throat In Name Only The Lancer Animal Title Index Ambiguous Ending Fourth Date Marriage Hollywood Law Fire-Forged Friends Maybe Ever After MacGuffin Kids Are Cruel Meaningful Name Hooker with a Heart of Gold Put on a Bus Mystery and Detective Films Hollywood Darkness Tagline The '50s The Voiceless Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Disney Villain Death Lampshade Hanging Foil Guile Hero Sequel Escalation Only Sane Man Male Frontal Nudity Make It Look Like an Accident No Ending Body Horror Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Works Set in World War II Historical In-Joke Noodle Incident Dies Wide Open All Men Are Perverts Peek-a-Boo Corpse Mundane Made Awesome Kick the Son of a Bitch As You Know Adaptational Heroism The '80s Loophole Abuse Chewing the Scenery Take a Third Option Red Right Hand "Awesome McCool" Name Adult Fear Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Heel Realization Manipulative Bastard Mama Bear Cat Fight Depraved Bisexual Video Credits Re-Cut The Chessmaster Continuity Nod Interrupted Suicide Manic Pixie Dream Girl Hope Spot Composite Character Red Oni, Blue Oni Straight Gay Unusually Uninteresting Sight Slasher Smile Ironic Echo Humiliation Conga Alpha Bitch Bond One-Liner folderlabel Not So Different Grievous Bottley Harm Very Loosely Based on a True Story I Have Your Wife Sequel Hook Funny Background Event Femme Fatale Bunny-Ears Lawyer No Antagonist Captain Obvious Alliterative Name Gender Flip Public Domain Feature Films Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane True Companions No Celebrities Were Harmed Line-of-Sight Name Dwindling Party Leitmotif Skewed Priorities An Axe to Grind There Is No Kill Like Overkill Dressing as the Enemy Half the Man He Used to Be BFG Mood Whiplash Dirty Coward Central Theme Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Drill Sergeant Nasty It's All About Me Five-Man Band Sinister Minister Self-Deprecation Riddle for the Ages Film Noir Zombie Stories Arc Words Big Fancy House For the Evulz Silence Is Golden Off with His Head! Big "NO!" Death Seeker A Father to His Men Chekhov's Gunman Eureka Moment Obstructive Bureaucrat The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Credits Gag Genre Shift Dutch Angle Vomit Discretion Shot Nice Guy How We Got Here Here We Go Again! Badass Bookworm From Bad to Worse Artistic License – History Monumental Damage Adapted Out Gilligan Cut After the End The Reveal Tap on the Head Determinator Good Is Not Nice Lighter and Softer Fatal Flaw The Stoic Badass Grandpa Italian Films Would Hit a Girl My Beloved Smother Award-Bait Song Faking the Dead Curse Cut Short Stylistic Suck Bad "Bad Acting" Love Triangle All There in the Script Roaring Rampage of Revenge Beard of Evil The Great Depression Badass Longcoat Deal with the Devil Room Full of Crazy Age Lift Blackmail The Ace Chiaroscuro Actor Allusion Suspiciously Similar Substitute Parental Incest Man on Fire Bald of Evil Genre Throwback The Bully Hoist by His Own Petard Bury Your Gays A Minor Kidroduction Drugs Are Bad Spell My Name with an "S" Wham Line Becoming the Mask Big Bad Air-Vent Passageway Adaptation Distillation I'm a Humanitarian Frame-Up Death by Irony Punny Name Sassy Black Woman Improvised Weapon Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Brother–Sister Incest Rule of Symbolism Well-Intentioned Extremist Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Race Lift Love at First Sight Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Chekhov's Skill Bloodless Carnage Domestic Abuse Shoot the Shaggy Dog Funny Foreigner Aluminum Christmas Trees Final Girl Not Even Bothering with the Accent An Aesop The Chick Police Brutality Wham Shot Card-Carrying Villain Corpsing Stealth Hi/Bye Hero Antagonist Breaking the Fourth Wall Australian Movies Vacation Films Music Stories Didn't Think This Through Evil Is Hammy Your Head A-Splode Made of Iron Extreme Doormat Affably Evil Blatant Lies Real Life Villainous Breakdown Offscreen Moment of Awesome Calling the Old Man Out Action Prologue Accidental Murder The Un-Reveal Men Are the Expendable Gender Wicked Cultured Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Rewatch Bonus Creative Closing Credits Retcon Death by Adaptation Cassandra Truth Closed Circle Dramatic Irony Freudian Excuse Bloody Hilarious Enemy Mine Silent Movie What Happened to the Mouse? Damsel in Distress Malevolent Masked Men Every Car Is a Pinto The Big Guy Plucky Comic Relief Pay Evil unto Evil Police are Useless A God Am I Nothing Is Scarier Superhero Evil Counterpart Never Trust a Trailer Covers Always Lie The End... Or Is It? The Dragon All Just a Dream Eagleland Neck Snap Badass Boast Black Best Friend Foregone Conclusion Killed Mid-Sentence Meet Cute Bi the Way Action Genre Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Betty and Veronica One Steve Limit Darker and Edgier Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor As Long as It Sounds Foreign Character Development Scenery Gorn The Cavalry As the Good Book Says... She's Got Legs Big-Bad Ensemble The Mafia Madness Mantra Anyone Can Die Villain Song The Casanova Fan Disservice Evil Sounds Deep Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene The Faceless Race Against the Clock World of Ham Redshirt Army Face Death with Dignity Motor Mouth Bilingual Bonus Villain Ball Star-Crossed Lovers Not What It Looks Like Suddenly SHOUTING! Truth in Television It Will Never Catch On Break the Haughty Destination Defenestration Bare Your Midriff The Hero Bond Villain Stupidity Idiot Ball Naïve Newcomer War Is Hell Reality Ensues Fantasy Films Television Movie Index Flipping the Bird Posthumous Character Would Hurt a Child Film Noir Index Ambiguously Gay More Dakka Heroic BSoD Guns Akimbo One-Man Army A.I. Is a Crapshoot Insult Backfire Broken Bird Rule of Funny Visual Pun Conspicuous CG Auto Erotica Say My Name Morality Pet Dirty Cop Reckless Gun Usage Reasonable Authority Figure Car Fu Dual Wielding Dull Surprise Soundtrack Dissonance Stuff Blowing Up Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Happily Married Big Bad Duumvirate Broken Aesop Boom, Headshot! Romantic Comedy Honor Before Reason Red Herring Names to Run Away from Really Fast Cluster F-Bomb Black Comedy Rape Storming the Castle Romantic False Lead Early Installment Weirdness Translation Convention Bland-Name Product Badass Normal Everyone Has Standards Retired Badass Death by Sex Unspoken Plan Guarantee Slasher Movie Manchild Nice Hat Gorn Better to Die than Be Killed The Quiet One Brutal Honesty Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Casting Gag Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Ripped from the Headlines Punch-Clock Villain Fish out of Water Same Language Dub Christmas Movies Index Shell-Shocked Veteran Camp Gay The Starscream Horror Comedy Action Survivor No OSHA Compliance Pragmatic Villainy Hero of Another Story Antagonist Title Index of Film Westerns Bottomless Magazines Back from the Dead Driven to Suicide Mighty Whitey Serial Killer Henpecked Husband Groin Attack Beta Couple Framing Device Together in Death Face–Heel Turn Heel–Face Turn Dissonant Serenity Cruel and Unusual Death Book-Ends Taking the Bullet Based on a True Story Fantastic Racism Manly Tears Early-Bird Cameo Outrun the Fireball Accidental Misnaming Diabolus ex Machina Jitter Cam Gone Horribly Right Too Dumb to Live Sealed Evil in a Can Plot Hole Amusing Injuries Apocalypse How Evil Laugh The Alleged Car Stock Footage Camera Abuse Fanservice Extra Redemption Equals Death Toplessness from the Back Vitriolic Best Buds Kill 'em All Creepy Child Offscreen Teleportation Irony Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Affectionate Parody Bloodier and Gorier Double-Meaning Title Freeze-Frame Bonus Bavarian Fire Drill Downer Ending "The Reason You Suck" Speech Spiteful Spit Scary Black Man Adaptation Name Change Villain Protagonist Villain Opening Scene Biopic No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Deliberately Monochrome Animal Motifs He Who Fights Monsters Married to the Job Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Authority Equals Asskicking Protagonist Title Random Events Plot Eldritch Abomination Martial Arts Movie Ax-Crazy Big Applesauce Bait-and-Switch The '60s Soft Glass The Stoner Jerkass Has a Point Imagine Spot Documentary Novelization Parental Neglect Running Gag Gory Discretion Shot Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil The Place Costume Porn No-Sell The '90s Parental Substitute Friend to All Children Catapult Nightmare And the Adventure Continues Horror Films Canadian Movies Important Haircut Failed a Spot Check Establishing Character Moment You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Eye Scream Bound and Gagged Large Ham Show Within a Show Ominous Latin Chanting Mistaken for Gay Spared by the Adaptation Disproportionate Retribution Deliberate Values Dissonance Daddy's Girl Shout-Out Butt-Monkey Abhorrent Admirer In the Back Country Matters Dramatic Gun Cock Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Heroes Want Redheads Shown Their Work Took a Level in Badass Pyrrhic Victory No Name Given Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Bullying a Dragon Batman Gambit Arch-Enemy Babies Ever After Brick Joke Leave the Camera Running Hidden Depths Bad Boss Easily Forgiven Made of Explodium Broken Pedestal Evil Plan Jump Scare Victoria's Secret Compartment Adults Are Useless Heroic Sacrifice Fainting Pre-Mortem One-Liner Poor Communication Kills Once More, with Clarity! Armor-Piercing Question Moment Killer Training Montage 20 Minutes into the Future Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Amoral Attorney Anachronic Order Be Careful What You Wish For The Oner Rousing Speech Dark Is Not Evil Call-Back Green-Eyed Monster Crazy-Prepared Crapsack World Get Out! Throwing Your Sword Always Works Big Brother Instinct Meaningful Background Event Dying Moment of Awesome Darkest Hour The Dreaded Leaning on the Fourth Wall Jerk Jock Vomit Indiscretion Shot Epic Fail Intrepid Reporter Sir Swears-a-Lot