Tropescilloscope: Gory Discretion Shot

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