Tropescilloscope: Fate Worse than Death

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