Tropescilloscope: Fatal Flaw

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