Tropescilloscope: Gilligan Cut

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Epilogue Defrosting Ice Queen Undying Loyalty Totally Radical Aside Glance Every Car Is a Pinto Make It Look Like an Accident Eyepatch of Power Anachronic Order Body Horror Documentary My Beloved Smother Sinister Minister Beware the Nice Ones Frame-Up Stuff Blowing Up Made of Explodium Mercy Kill 20 Minutes into the Future "Shaggy Dog" Story Re-Cut Spell My Name with an "S" Decoy Protagonist Shipper on Deck The Smart Guy Big Bad Cowboy Cop Villain Opening Scene Brother–Sister Incest Laughing Mad The '50s Truth in Television Off with His Head! Nice Hat The Reveal The Bully Missing Mom Ax-Crazy Vitriolic Best Buds Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Rasputinian Death Chekhov's Gun Attempted Rape Dirty Coward Kids Are Cruel Big "NO!" timeperiod The Big Guy Fourth Date Marriage Evil Counterpart Dogged Nice Guy Deconstruction Rich Bitch Sports Stories Does This Remind You of Anything? Match Cut Hidden Depths Oh, Crap! 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Is Serious Business The Great Depression Punny Name Adaptational Villainy Cool Old Lady The Ghost There Is No Kill Like Overkill Cluster F-Bomb Black Best Friend Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Action Survivor Pretty Little Headshots Heroic BSoD Music Stories Due to the Dead Bait-and-Switch Shout-Out Hope Spot Those Wacky Nazis Ominous Latin Chanting Male Frontal Nudity Took a Level in Jerkass The Chick Captain Obvious Gorn Reckless Gun Usage Shoot the Shaggy Dog Friend to All Children Eureka Moment Kill 'em All Gory Discretion Shot Drill Sergeant Nasty Badass in a Nice Suit Funny Background Event A Date with Rosie Palms Rule of Symbolism Actor Allusion Actually Pretty Funny Big Eater Manipulative Bastard Leitmotif Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Gratuitous English The Musical Refuge in Audacity Crapsack World Intrepid Reporter Heroic Sacrifice Together in Death Evil Sounds Deep I Just Shot Marvin in the Face In the Back Calling the Old Man Out Gilligan Cut The Dog Bites Back Cat Fight Cold-Blooded Torture Gainax Ending Malevolent Masked Men Easily Forgiven Dramatic Gun Cock Historical Hero Upgrade Anyone Can Die Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Narrator Casting Gag The Film of the Book Adults Are Useless Bald of Evil Disproportionate Retribution Title Drop Scenery Porn Fantastic Racism Disguised in Drag Never Trust a Trailer The Cavalry Shell-Shocked Veteran Crazy-Prepared B-Movie The Mafia Beauty Is Never Tarnished Disappeared Dad Stepford Smiler Video Credits Parental Abandonment Framing Device I'm a Humanitarian Dissonant Serenity The Remake Cool Shades Public Domain Feature Films Leaning on the Fourth Wall It's All About Me Driven to Suicide Chekhov's Gunman Never My Fault Bound and Gagged Needs Wiki Magic Love folderlabel Improbable Weapon User May–December Romance Very Loosely Based on a True Story Non-Indicative Name Parental Neglect A.I. 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Historical Villain Upgrade Artistic License – Gun Safety Dark and Troubled Past Mythology Gag Affectionate Parody I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Ghost Fiction Pre-Mortem One-Liner Foregone Conclusion Retired Badass And I Must Scream Mistaken for Gay Retirony Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Manchild Put on a Bus Bolivian Army Ending Villainous Breakdown Five-Man Band Precision F-Strike Central Theme Chewing the Scenery Outrun the Fireball Stock Footage Despair Event Horizon Would Hit a Girl Sir Swears-a-Lot Heroes Want Redheads Blackmail Loophole Abuse Unwitting Instigator of Doom All There in the Script Evil Is Hammy The Faceless Based on a True Story Action Prologue A Father to His Men Age Lift Here We Go Again! 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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Black Comedy Rape Freudian Excuse Daylight Horror The Stinger Big Brother Instinct Insult Backfire Knife Nut Famous Last Words All for Nothing Fun with Acronyms Continuity Nod Big Bad Duumvirate Adapted Out Exactly What It Says on the Tin Curse Cut Short Token Minority NO INDOOR VOICE Batman Gambit Deliberate Values Dissonance Psycho for Hire Catapult Nightmare Extremely Short Timespan Cool Car Adaptation Expansion Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Say My Name Race Against the Clock Race Lift German Films Call-Back Vomit Indiscretion Shot Manly Tears The Dragon Accidental Murder Papa Wolf Only Known by Their Nickname The Sociopath Pimped-Out Dress Covers Always Lie All Just a Dream Woman Scorned Superhero Australian Movies Dressing as the Enemy Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Mugging the Monster Deliberately Monochrome No Ending Posthumous Character Sequel Escalation Abhorrent Admirer Darker and Edgier Authority Equals Asskicking Country Matters Skewed Priorities Does Not Like Shoes Double Entendre Ambiguously Gay Fire-Forged Friends You Have Failed Me Lampshade Hanging Karmic Death Badass Grandpa Parental Incest Hollywood Law Crucified Hero Shot Faux Affably Evil Retcon Depraved Bisexual The Oner The Voiceless Tranquil Fury Meaningful Echo Properly Paranoid Mama Bear Toplessness from the Back Zombie Stories Offscreen Teleportation Slasher Movie Evil Brit Daddy's Girl Curb-Stomp Battle Ambiguous Disorder Bullying a Dragon Whole Plot Reference Almost Kiss Apocalypse How Demoted to Extra Stalker with a Crush Leave the Camera Running Kick the Dog Bring My Brown Pants Jerk with a Heart of Gold Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Made of Iron Product Placement Captain Ersatz Establishing Character Moment Take That! 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Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie The Hero Dies Fatal Flaw Belligerent Sexual Tension Villain Song Department of Redundancy Department Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Alas, Poor Villain Adaptational Badass Asshole Victim Once More, with Clarity! Taking the Bullet Hollywood Darkness Animal Motifs Fan Disservice Fanservice Extra Christmas Movies Index Not Quite Dead Sexy Discretion Shot As Long as It Sounds Foreign Everyone Has Standards Car Fu Horror Films Agony of the Feet Adaptation Distillation Obstructive Bureaucrat Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Last-Name Basis Russian Films Contrived Coincidence British Films Sassy Black Woman Bloodless Carnage Jerkass Has a Point Left the Background Music On Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Not So Stoic Psychological Thriller Mighty Whitey This Is Gonna Suck Mad Scientist Stylistic Suck Those Two Guys Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Really Gets Around Adorkable The Place Morality Pet No Celebrities Were Harmed Off-into-the-Distance Ending Parental Substitute Author Avatar The Bad Guy Wins Names to Run Away from Really Fast Blood from the Mouth Drowning My Sorrows Red Shirt Overly Long Gag Visual Pun Too Dumb to Live Ship Tease Cain and Abel Death by Sex Nothing Is Scarier Rousing Speech Ascended Extra Jump Scare More Dakka Determinator aka: The Determinator Hero of Another Story Line-of-Sight Name Bi the Way Exact Words One-Man Army Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Worthy Opponent Final Girl Heel–Face Turn Kick the Son of a Bitch No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Novelization "Well Done, Son!" Guy Alliterative Name Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Advertised Extra Manic Pixie Dream Girl Logo Joke It Will Never Catch On The Quiet One Love at First Sight Crazy Jealous Guy No Name Given Artistic License – Law Fake Shemp You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Flashback Wrong Genre Savvy The Alleged Car Camp Gay Rape as Drama Mind Screw An Arm and a Leg Artistic License – Biology Deus ex Machina Lighter and Softer Bare Your Midriff All Men Are Perverts Running Gag Flipping the Bird Fingore Married to the Job Cat Scare Let's Get Dangerous! 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