Tropescilloscope: Funny Background Event

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