Tropescilloscope: Gorn

Gratuitous, over-the-top graphic violence. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Irony Fake Shemp Artistic License – Law Wham Shot Cool Shades Politically Incorrect Villain Boom, Headshot! Insane Troll Logic Toplessness from the Back Rich Bitch Drugs Are Bad La Résistance Say My Name Armor-Piercing Question The Lost Lenore Race Lift Hollywood Law Spanner in the Works Redemption Equals Death Costume Porn Shipper on Deck For the Evulz Gender Flip Mundane Made Awesome What You Are in the Dark Nice Hat Mythology Gag Early Installment Weirdness Artistic License – Biology Neck Snap Framing Device Based on a True Story Tagline Gainax Ending Alas, Poor Villain Abhorrent Admirer Does Not Like Shoes Shoot the Shaggy Dog Combat Pragmatist Loads and Loads of Characters Ass Shove Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie 20 Minutes into the Future The '80s Eye Scream Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Red Shirt The Mole Documentary Betty and Veronica Handicapped Badass Show Within a Show Stepford Smiler Historical-Domain Character Foreshadowing Gratuitous English Death by Irony Dirty Coward The Ditz All Men Are Perverts Bottomless Magazines Would Hit a Girl Annoying Younger Sibling Took a Level in Badass Reality Has No Subtitles Men Are the Expendable Gender timeperiod A Minor Kidroduction "Where Are They Now?" 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Japanese Films Wrong Genre Savvy Mama Bear In Name Only Blonde, Brunette, Redhead French Films Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Martial Arts Movie Better to Die than Be Killed Skewed Priorities Fan Disservice The Hero Dies Villain with Good Publicity Freudian Excuse She Cleans Up Nicely Decoy Protagonist For Want of a Nail Berserk Button Sadistic Choice Bilingual Bonus Bloodier and Gorier Country Matters The Mafia Cool Guns May–December Romance Adaptation Dye-Job Hair-Trigger Temper Blood Knight Jitter Cam World of Ham Nothing Is Scarier Too Dumb to Live Faux Affably Evil Hypocrite The Casanova Gory Discretion Shot Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Even Evil Has Loved Ones Offscreen Moment of Awesome Action Prologue Flipping the Bird Double Entendre Fanservice Extra "Well Done, Son!" 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Police Brutality Historical In-Joke Children Are Innocent Almost Kiss Expy Manic Pixie Dream Girl Flashback Dies Wide Open Big Damn Heroes Sir Swears-a-Lot Rasputinian Death Film Noir Up to Eleven Big Bad Stuff Blowing Up Cain and Abel Faking the Dead Enemy Mine The Reveal Badass Longcoat Determinator Reality Ensues Foil All Just a Dream It's Personal Interrupted Suicide Unspoken Plan Guarantee Historical Villain Upgrade Star-Crossed Lovers Our Zombies Are Different Expository Hairstyle Change Those Two Bad Guys Ambiguous Disorder Bury Your Gays Dropped a Bridge on Him Tranquil Fury Novelization The Film of the Book Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Call-Forward Superhero Took a Level in Jerkass Apocalypse How Break the Haughty Worthy Opponent Precision F-Strike The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Hoist by His Own Petard Recycled IN SPACE! Book-Ends Not So Above It All Adult Fear Adaptational Attractiveness Death Seeker Re-Cut Blackmail Setting Update Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Disney Villain Death Captain Obvious The Dreaded Left the Background Music On Deliberately Monochrome Leitmotif Italian Films Alpha Bitch I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Eldritch Abomination Match Cut Chewing the Scenery All There in the Manual Canadian Movies Scenery Gorn Heroic BSoD Parental Neglect Contrived Coincidence Unusual Euphemism Defrosting Ice Queen Ax-Crazy Hero Antagonist Never Trust a Trailer Butt-Monkey Dwindling Party I Have Your Wife Age Lift The Smurfette Principle A.I. Is a Crapshoot Villain Protagonist Spiteful Spit Beard of Evil Fiery Redhead Abusive Parents And I Must Scream Award-Bait Song Instant Death Bullet Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality It's All About Me Your Cheating Heart Adapted Out The Musical Refuge in Audacity Auto Erotica British Films Driven to Suicide Male Gaze Only Known by Their Nickname Even Evil Has Standards Psychological Thriller Friend to All Children Reasonable Authority Figure Papa Wolf Stealth Hi/Bye Obviously Evil The Stoic Catch-Phrase Artistic License – Geography Posthumous Character Rewatch Bonus Married to the Job Hollywood Darkness There Is No Kill Like Overkill Anachronism Stew Creator Cameo Obfuscating Stupidity It Will Never Catch On Fingore Arc Words Break the Cutie Domestic Abuse B-Movie Five-Man Band O.O.C. Is Serious Business Character Development N-Word Privileges Heel–Face Turn Hooker with a Heart of Gold After the End Imagine Spot Last-Name Basis Needs Wiki Magic Love Sports Stories Paper-Thin Disguise The Starscream Meaningful Background Event Epic Fail Broken Bird Air-Vent Passageway Romantic False Lead