Tropescilloscope: Fatal Flaw

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