Tropescilloscope: Gory Discretion Shot

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