Tropescilloscope: Fish out of Water

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