Tropescilloscope: Gilligan Cut

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