Tropescilloscope: Fake Shemp

The Other Darrin meets He Who Must Not Be Seen. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Death of a Child Truth in Television Posthumous Character Hero Antagonist Only in It for the Money Artistic License – Geography Happily Married Femme Fatale Canon Foreigner Chase Scene "Where Are They Now?" 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Is a Crapshoot Animal Title Index Anguished Declaration of Love Anti-Villain Parental Substitute Dirty Old Man Big Damn Heroes Sealed Evil in a Can Meaningful Echo Improbable Weapon User The Chessmaster The Place Despair Event Horizon Eldritch Abomination Naïve Newcomer Index of Film Westerns Faux Affably Evil Sacrificial Lion Pyrrhic Victory Canadian Movies Annoying Younger Sibling Really Gets Around Cowboy Cop All There in the Manual Villain Opening Scene Dark Is Not Evil Blackmail Missing Mom Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Aside Glance The Stinger Arc Words Playing Gertrude The Load Foil Anyone Can Die Cluster F-Bomb Hoist by His Own Petard Never My Fault Dying Moment of Awesome Flipping the Bird Almost Kiss Fatal Family Photo No Celebrities Were Harmed Fat Bastard Male Frontal Nudity Card-Carrying Villain Badass in a Nice Suit Dirty Coward Spiteful Spit Chekhov's Skill Facial Horror She's Got Legs Suspiciously Similar Substitute Deliberately Monochrome Pre-Mortem One-Liner Not Even Bothering with the Accent Domestic Abuse In Medias Res Offscreen Moment of Awesome Woman in White Rule of Cool This Is Gonna Suck Lock and Load Montage Precision F-Strike Death Seeker There Is No Kill Like Overkill Attempted Rape Room Full of Crazy Mexican Standoff Grievous Bottley Harm Drowning My Sorrows Superhero Belligerent Sexual Tension Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Dramedy Earn Your Happy Ending Dogged Nice Guy Sanity Slippage Dark and Troubled Past Vacation Films Pimped-Out Dress Berserk Button Fantastic Racism Sassy Black Woman Heterosexual Life-Partners Storming the Castle Greater-Scope Villain Due to the Dead Adaptational Badass Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Crapsack World Nothing Is Scarier Sequel Escalation Dark Action Girl Fanservice Extra Bait-and-Switch Action Girl Not Using the "Z" Word A Father to His Men Ax-Crazy Translation Convention Intergenerational Friendship Empathic Environment Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Badass Grandpa I Did What I Had to Do Camp Gay Adaptation Name Change Take a Third Option Genre Throwback Becoming the Mask Call-Forward Crazy Jealous Guy Red Eyes, Take Warning Neck Lift Humans Are Bastards Kill 'em All The Alleged Car The Mole I'm a Humanitarian Let's Get Dangerous! Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil The Oner Slasher Movie Hollywood Law Chewing the Scenery The Ghost Chuck Cunningham Syndrome The Dreaded Madness Mantra Authority Equals Asskicking Not So Different Same Language Dub Nice Guy B-Movie Protagonist Title Bond One-Liner Dark Reprise The Starscream Call-Back Wounded Gazelle Gambit And Starring The Brute Off-into-the-Distance Ending Drives Like Crazy Biopic Impaled with Extreme Prejudice All for Nothing Blatant Lies Military and Warfare Films Amoral Attorney La Résistance Male Gaze Grey and Gray Morality Large Ham Artistic License – Law Stylistic Suck Not So Above It All An Axe to Grind Interrupted Suicide Riddle for the Ages Epic Movie Serial Killer Evil Laugh Catapult Nightmare Combat Pragmatist Maybe Ever After What Happened to the Mouse? 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Twist Ending Easily Forgiven Manic Pixie Dream Girl Ungrateful Bastard Accidental Misnaming Gilligan Cut Stuff Blowing Up Your Cheating Heart Pet the Dog Parental Abandonment No Name Given Disguised in Drag Overprotective Dad Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Manipulative Bastard Here We Go Again! Evil Counterpart The Voiceless Christmas Movies Index The Power of Love Psychological Thriller Meet Cute Mistaken for Gay The '60s Dramatic Gun Cock Major Injury Underreaction Toplessness from the Back Adaptation Expansion Unusually Uninteresting Sight Red Oni, Blue Oni Fantasy Films Bavarian Fire Drill The Cavalry Deal with the Devil The Ace Alliterative Name Darker and Edgier Ironic Echo Green-Eyed Monster Race Against the Clock Shirtless Scene Monumental Damage "The Reason You Suck" Speech My God, What Have I Done? Adapted Out Tap on the Head Vitriolic Best Buds Enemy Mine Kick the Dog Bolivian Army Ending Dissonant Serenity Cool Guns The Dog Bites Back Disney Villain Death Bullying a Dragon Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Knight Templar Trailers Always Spoil As Himself Your Head A-Splode Parental Neglect Never Trust a Trailer Peek-a-Boo Corpse Those Wacky Nazis Frame-Up Serious Business Mood Whiplash Idiot Ball Bloodier and Gorier Covers Always Lie Retirony Shut Up, Hannibal! Rule of Funny The Bad Guy Wins Match Cut Paper-Thin Disguise Too Dumb to Live Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Plot Hole Rousing Speech My Beloved Smother Kill It with Fire Badass Boast Irony Fatal Flaw A God Am I Mooks Didn't Think This Through Woman Scorned Mind Screw Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Rule of Symbolism Meaningful Background Event Reckless Gun Usage Love at First Sight Danny Peary Cult Movies List Evil Is Petty The Smart Guy Overly Long Gag Japanese Films Dull Surprise Kick the Son of a Bitch Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Famous Last Words Heroic BSoD Bland-Name Product Arch-Enemy The Musical Beware the Nice Ones A Date with Rosie Palms Dutch Angle The Lost Lenore French Films Be Careful What You Wish For Corrupt Corporate Executive Sinister Minister O.O.C. Is Serious Business Does This Remind You of Anything? Shell-Shocked Veteran Setting Update Children Are Innocent British Films Adaptational Heroism Retcon Cassandra Truth Needs Wiki Magic Love Age Lift Documentary Jump Scare Diabolus ex Machina The Lancer Antagonist Title For Want of a Nail Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Epic Fail The Dragon Daylight Horror I Have Your Wife Pragmatic Adaptation Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Demonic Possession Cool Shades Deconstruction Black Dude Dies First Asshole Victim Cloudcuckoolander Hero of Another Story You Have Failed Me Lampshade Hanging Gorn Funny Background Event From Bad to Worse Not What It Looks Like Pragmatic Villainy Getting Crap Past the Radar Loads and Loads of Characters Drugs Are Bad The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Hooker with a Heart of Gold For the Evulz Even Evil Has Standards Department of Redundancy Department Straight Gay Creator Cameo Disproportionate Retribution Evil-Detecting Dog Laser-Guided Karma Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Actually Pretty Funny The Big Guy As Long as It Sounds Foreign Cat Fight Ambiguous Disorder Damsel in Distress Contrived Coincidence Spanner in the Works Actor Allusion What the Hell, Hero?