Tropescilloscope: Flipping the Bird

Extending the middle finger in irritation. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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They Really Do Love Each Other Playing Gertrude Naïve Newcomer Dark and Troubled Past Totally Radical Ambiguous Disorder An Arm and a Leg The Stoner Those Two Guys Romantic False Lead Poor Communication Kills Science Fiction Films Mind Screw Spell My Name with an "S" Dwindling Party Off-into-the-Distance Ending Body Horror Empathic Environment Mood Whiplash Deus ex Machina Meaningful Name Have a Gay Old Time Extreme Doormat 20 Minutes into the Future The Mafia Karma Houdini Big Eater Brother–Sister Incest Sassy Black Woman Cool Car Meaningful Background Event Martial Arts Movie Artistic License – Geography It's Personal Half the Man He Used to Be I Did What I Had to Do Genre Shift Straight Gay Camp Gay Beta Couple I'm a Humanitarian Bury Your Gays Male Frontal Nudity Token Minority Scary Black Man Composite Character Daddy's Girl Hidden Depths Artistic License – Physics Serious Business Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Ms. Fanservice Unreliable Narrator Intergenerational Friendship Death Seeker Bare Your Midriff Tap on the Head B-Movie It's All About Me Calling the Old Man Out Wicked Cultured Author Appeal Shoot the Shaggy Dog Hollywood Darkness Unresolved Sexual Tension Cool Old Lady Leave the Camera Running Fake Shemp Big Fancy House Arranged Marriage Soundtrack Dissonance Fantastic Racism My Beloved Smother Exactly What It Says on the Tin Scenery Gorn Dirty Coward Annoying Younger Sibling Index of Film Westerns Ironic Echo Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Immune to Bullets Loads and Loads of Characters Distracted by the Sexy The Cameo Evil Is Petty Only Sane Man Everyone Has Standards Honor Before Reason Cool Guns Meet Cute Chekhov's Gun Authority Equals Asskicking Adaptational Badass Gold Digger Russian Films Defiant to the End Manly Tears Drill Sergeant Nasty Title Drop Parental Substitute Death by Adaptation Cool Old Guy Deliberate Values Dissonance Celebrity Paradox Curse Cut Short You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Grievous Bottley Harm Cold-Blooded Torture Dropped a Bridge on Him Big Bad Duumvirate Sacrificial Lion Did Not Get the Girl Chase Scene Killed Mid-Sentence Adults Are Useless Roger Ebert: Great Movies List BFG Knife Nut Time Skip As the Good Book Says... 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Downer Ending Darkest Hour The Smart Guy Deliberately Monochrome Retirony Together in Death Age Lift Crazy Jealous Guy Biopic A.I. 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Even Evil Has Loved Ones Pay Evil unto Evil Vampire Fiction Fanservice Extra Humiliation Conga Demoted to Extra Bar Brawl Manchild Beard of Evil Meaningful Echo No-Sell Anachronic Order What the Hell, Hero? The Load Manic Pixie Dream Girl Heroes Want Redheads Arc Words Dual Wielding Names to Run Away from Really Fast Pragmatic Adaptation Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Jerk Jock Almost Kiss Determinator aka: The Determinator Stealth Hi/Bye And Starring Ungrateful Bastard Obfuscating Stupidity British Films Didn't Think This Through Closed Circle Instant Death Bullet Implacable Man Adapted Out Shirtless Scene Coming-of-Age Story Artistic License – Biology Italian Films Tranquil Fury Really Gets Around Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Anti-Hero Love Triangle Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Villain with Good Publicity Every Car Is a Pinto Christmas Movies Index Truth in Television Serial Killer Dark Is Not Evil Death Glare Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Humans Are Bastards Captain Obvious Woman in White Eldritch Abomination Stuff Blowing Up Badass Grandpa Gorn Eagleland One Steve Limit Country Matters You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Guile Hero Screw the Rules, I Have Money! The Faceless Slashed Throat Break the Cutie The Mole Line-of-Sight Name Genre Savvy Properly Paranoid Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Historical-Domain Character Wretched Hive Failed a Spot Check Aluminum Christmas Trees Heroic BSoD Gory Discretion Shot Would Hit a Girl Animal Motifs Artistic License – Military Ambiguous Ending Dark Action Girl Big "NO!" Cat Scare Cruel and Unusual Death The Stinger Rule of Cool Not So Different Anyone Can Die Crucified Hero Shot Novelization Chuck Cunningham Syndrome O.O.C. Is Serious Business Overprotective Dad Roaring Rampage of Revenge Thriller Belligerent Sexual Tension One-Word Title Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Large Ham Corpsing Japanese Films There Is No Kill Like Overkill Gratuitous English Redshirt Army Cool Shades Henpecked Husband Deconstruction Punny Name Vitriolic Best Buds The Alleged Car Same Language Dub "Awesome McCool" Name Shut Up, Hannibal! Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Mythology Gag Eye Scream Driven to Suicide Asshole Victim Reality Is Unrealistic Domestic Abuse Retcon Black Comedy Evil Sounds Deep More Dakka Sinister Minister Expository Hairstyle Change Rated M for Manly This Is Gonna Suck Drugs Are Bad A Father to His Men Mugging the Monster "Well Done, Son!" Guy Agony of the Feet The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Antagonist Title Cain and Abel Recycled IN SPACE! Call-Back Too Dumb to Live Hope Spot From Nobody to Nightmare Deadpan Snarker Insistent Terminology What You Are in the Dark Fat Bastard Make It Look Like an Accident One-Man Army Kill It with Fire Pet the Dog Small Name, Big Ego Ax-Crazy "Where Are They Now?" 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