Tropescilloscope: Fatal Flaw

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