Tropescilloscope: Gold Digger

Says: "I love everything about you". Means: "I love what you can give to me." (read more at tvtropes.org)

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They Really Do Love Each Other Real Life Based on a True Story Cold-Blooded Torture My Beloved Smother Pet the Dog Too Dumb to Live Hero Antagonist Knight Templar Defiant to the End Unreliable Narrator Age Lift Cool Shades No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Vomit Indiscretion Shot Victoria's Secret Compartment Those Wacky Nazis Scenery Porn Tap on the Head Kill It with Fire Unwitting Instigator of Doom Spared by the Adaptation Vacation Films Vomit Discretion Shot Back from the Dead Camp Gay Needs Wiki Magic Love Deal with the Devil Sequel Escalation Our Zombies Are Different Historical In-Joke Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience "Shaggy Dog" Story Unusual Euphemism Every Car Is a Pinto Breaking the Fourth Wall The Ghost The Starscream Celebrity Paradox Crapsack World Match Cut Fantastic Racism Annoying Younger Sibling Russian Films Manipulative Bastard Kick the Dog Bring My Brown Pants Pre-Mortem One-Liner Pay Evil unto Evil British Films Femme Fatale Lock and Load Montage Everyone Has Standards Hell Is That Noise Extremely Short Timespan Evil Laugh Only Known by Their Nickname Stuff Blowing Up Big Bad Redemption Equals Death The End... 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Guns Akimbo Daddy's Girl Butt-Monkey Broken Pedestal Brainless Beauty Narrator Film Noir Product Placement BFG Shell-Shocked Veteran As Himself Not Even Bothering with the Accent Shoot the Shaggy Dog Hoist by His Own Petard Real Life Writes the Plot Fat Bastard Double-Meaning Title Disguised in Drag Madness Mantra Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Ungrateful Bastard Catapult Nightmare Easily Forgiven Important Haircut Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Horror Comedy Determinator Driven to Suicide Dumb Blonde Mr. Fanservice The '90s Action Genre Anachronism Stew The Smart Guy Have a Gay Old Time Not So Stoic Biopic He Who Fights Monsters Bavarian Fire Drill How We Got Here Maybe Ever After Non-Indicative Name The Place Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor From Bad to Worse '80s Hair Suddenly SHOUTING! Blatant Lies Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Bar Brawl Dual Wielding Adult Fear Oh, Crap! Adaptation Name Change Even Evil Has Loved Ones Heroic BSoD Evil vs. Evil Implacable Man Neck Snap Author Appeal Dramedy Mr. Exposition Mama Bear Cool Old Lady Interrupted Suicide The Alleged Car The Bad Guy Wins Final Girl Ax-Crazy Blood Knight Guile Hero Twist Ending Corpsing Badass Bookworm The Quiet One Shipper on Deck Older Than They Look I Need a Freaking Drink Race Against the Clock Made of Iron Never Found the Body Left the Background Music On The X of Y Demonic Possession Mundane Made Awesome Advertised Extra Here We Go Again! Once More, with Clarity! Accidental Misnaming Boom, Headshot! Rule of Three Demoted to Extra Evil-Detecting Dog Names to Run Away from Really Fast Blood from the Mouth Batman Gambit Insane Troll Logic Animal Motifs Playing Gertrude Black Comedy Rape Woman Scorned Gainax Ending Bond Villain Stupidity Getting Crap Past the Radar Flipping the Bird Babies Ever After Distracted by the Sexy Affectionate Parody Kick the Son of a Bitch Bait-and-Switch Casting Gag Ambiguous Disorder Lighter and Softer Arranged Marriage Handicapped Badass The Chessmaster Naked People Are Funny Training Montage Leaning on the Fourth Wall Sanity Slippage Silence Is Golden Papa Wolf Kubrick Stare Video Credits All There in the Script What the Hell, Hero? Amusing Injuries Overprotective Dad Dark Action Girl Asshole Victim Not Using the "Z" Word Sealed Evil in a Can Disproportionate Retribution Re-Cut Married to the Job Off with His Head! 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Is a Crapshoot Totally Radical Black Dude Dies First Face Death with Dignity It Will Never Catch On "The Reason You Suck" Speech Bunny-Ears Lawyer Film Noir Index Romantic Comedy The Film of the Book Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Straight Gay Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Eiffel Tower Effect Bare Your Midriff Becoming the Mask Darkest Hour Room Full of Crazy Stepford Smiler Malevolent Masked Men Your Head A-Splode Grievous Bottley Harm Ambiguously Gay Greater-Scope Villain Antagonist Title Unspoken Plan Guarantee Credits Gag Drowning My Sorrows Big Eater Redshirt Army Drugs Are Bad Captain Obvious Creative Closing Credits She Cleans Up Nicely Fanservice Anti-Villain Retired Badass Retcon Very Loosely Based on a True Story Genre Throwback Anyone Can Die Due to the Dead Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Paper-Thin Disguise Bilingual Bonus Plucky Comic Relief Gilligan Cut Artistic License – Physics The Stinger Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! It's Personal Big "NO!" Obfuscating Stupidity Overly Long Gag Dark and Troubled Past Title Drop Soft Glass Mexican Standoff Psychological Thriller Funny Foreigner Your Cheating Heart A God Am I Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Sports Stories The Hero Men Are the Expendable Gender Politically Incorrect Villain The Musical Broken Bird Recycled IN SPACE! Stylistic Suck The Ditz Random Events Plot Bloodier and Gorier The '70s Cool Guns Worthy Opponent Nothing Is Scarier Love at First Sight Black and Gray Morality Fire-Forged Friends Aside Glance The Faceless Conspicuous CG Adaptational Heroism Death Seeker Attempted Rape Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Fantasy Films Coming-of-Age Story What You Are in the Dark Those Two Bad Guys Mighty Whitey Pretty in Mink Jerkass Has a Point Artistic License – Gun Safety Insistent Terminology Intergenerational Friendship Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Is Serious Business Evil Plan Major Injury Underreaction Cat Fight Obstructive Bureaucrat Evil Is Hammy Eye Scream Hypocrite Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass All There in the Manual Obviously Evil Spiritual Successor Bowdlerise Informed Ability Broken Aesop Bottomless Magazines Mugging the Monster Animated Credits Opening Anguished Declaration of Love Slashed Throat Military and Warfare Films Villain Protagonist In Medias Res Karmic Death Defrosting Ice Queen Character Development You Have Failed Me Arch-Enemy Naïve Newcomer Gratuitous English Rated M for Manly The Voiceless As You Know Sexy Discretion Shot Aluminum Christmas Trees The '50s Make It Look Like an Accident In the Back Badass Boast folderlabel Disappeared Dad Jerk with a Heart of Gold "Where Are They Now?" 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Freudian Excuse Tempting Fate Continuity Nod The Ace Truth in Television Calling the Old Man Out Deliberate Values Dissonance Not Quite Dead The Mafia Bond One-Liner Closed Circle Badass Grandpa Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Authority Equals Asskicking Artistic License – Biology Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? My God, What Have I Done? Scenery Gorn Brick Joke Leave the Camera Running Humans Are Bastards Precision F-Strike Superhero Italian Films Gory Discretion Shot Slap-Slap-Kiss Setting Update Whole Plot Reference Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Captain Ersatz Knife Nut Hair-Trigger Temper It's All About Me Manchild Ship Tease Intrepid Reporter Anti-Hero For the Evulz Time Skip Psycho for Hire Villain Song Fake Shemp In Name Only Does This Remind You of Anything? 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