Tropescilloscope: Fish out of Water

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Bowdlerise Knight Templar Calling the Old Man Out Car Fu Beta Couple Exactly What It Says on the Tin Gilligan Cut Spanner in the Works Have a Gay Old Time Badass Boast Crazy-Prepared Good Is Not Nice Evil Counterpart Adapted Out Silent Movie Precision F-Strike Truth in Television Destination Defenestration There Is No Kill Like Overkill Police Brutality Outrun the Fireball Crucified Hero Shot Covers Always Lie Trailers Always Spoil Redemption Equals Death Fanservice The Cavalry The Mole Shoot the Shaggy Dog Token Minority The Ghost Authority Equals Asskicking Ms. Fanservice Parental Abandonment B-Movie Disguised in Drag Annoying Younger Sibling Neck Lift Big Brother Instinct Hypocritical Humor Brother–Sister Incest Improvised Weapon Stylistic Suck Fan Disservice Love at First Sight Cool Car Nice Hat From Nobody to Nightmare Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" World of Ham Face–Heel Turn All for Nothing Knife Nut Corrupt Corporate Executive Cool Old Lady Captain Ersatz Nice Guy Sealed Evil in a Can Bi the Way Sassy Black Woman Cruel and Unusual Death Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane The Power of Love La Résistance Diabolus ex Machina Armor-Piercing Question Affectionate Parody Russian Films Pimped-Out Dress Retcon Darker and Edgier Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Babies Ever After Ship Tease Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie And I Must Scream Kubrick Stare A.I. 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Is Serious Business Bloodier and Gorier No Name Given Fish out of Water Made of Explodium Roaring Rampage of Revenge Ambiguous Ending Ungrateful Bastard Captain Obvious Improbable Weapon User Redshirt Army Bare Your Midriff Coming-of-Age Story Asshole Victim Not So Stoic Fake Shemp Almost Kiss For Want of a Nail Anachronic Order Soft Glass Laughing Mad The Smart Guy Action Prologue Wicked Cultured Ripped from the Headlines Central Theme Motor Mouth Poor Communication Kills Corpsing Big-Bad Ensemble Betty and Veronica Parental Neglect Science Fiction Films Spell My Name with an "S" More Dakka N-Word Privileges My Greatest Failure Paper-Thin Disguise Spared by the Adaptation Television Movie Index Line-of-Sight Name Market-Based Title Spiritual Successor In the Back Action Survivor Romantic Comedy Revenge Danny Peary Cult Movies List No Antagonist Evil Brit Non-Indicative Name Call-Back Brainless Beauty Bitch in Sheep's Clothing You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Fun with Acronyms Defiant to the End Silence Is Golden Deconstruction I Did What I Had to Do Lighter and Softer Death by Sex Damsel in Distress Cat Fight Would Hit a Girl The Atoner Wrong Genre Savvy Extremely Short Timespan Straight Gay Meaningful Echo Time Skip Shown Their Work Evil-Detecting Dog Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Rousing Speech Stuff Blowing Up Unusually Uninteresting Sight Fatal Family Photo Reality Has No Subtitles Humans Are Bastards Madness Mantra Dramatic Gun Cock Did Not Get the Girl The Smurfette Principle The Chessmaster The Starscream Big Fancy House Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Big "NO!" Adaptational Attractiveness Intrepid Reporter Chase Scene The Quiet One Everyone Has Standards Skewed Priorities Wretched Hive Informed Ability Dirty Old Man Be Careful What You Wish For Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Dwindling Party Break the Haughty Recycled IN SPACE! Dirty Coward Even Evil Has Loved Ones Beard of Evil Idiot Ball Deus ex Machina Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience The X of Y Final Girl As Himself Does This Remind You of Anything? Drives Like Crazy What You Are in the Dark The '70s Meaningful Background Event Running Gag Male Gaze Famous Last Words Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Decoy Protagonist Evil Is Petty Film Series The Ace Our Vampires Are Different Creative Closing Credits Horror Comedy Advertised Extra Grievous Bottley Harm A Date with Rosie Palms I Need a Freaking Drink One Steve Limit Manic Pixie Dream Girl Names to Run Away from Really Fast Mr. Exposition Fire-Forged Friends "Shaggy Dog" Story Chiaroscuro Cloudcuckoolander Suddenly SHOUTING! 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French Films Credits Gag I Have Your Wife Drill Sergeant Nasty Bring My Brown Pants You Killed My Father Psycho for Hire Extreme Doormat This Is Gonna Suck Artistic License – Physics Tranquil Fury Frame-Up Real Life Death of a Child Horror Films Becoming the Mask A God Am I Badass Normal Older Than They Look Slasher Movie Black Dude Dies First The Voiceless Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Sacrificial Lion Star-Crossed Lovers Badass in a Nice Suit Overly Long Gag Race Against the Clock After the End Hoist by His Own Petard Those Two Guys Bald of Evil Unspoken Plan Guarantee