Tropescilloscope: Framing Device

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