Tropescilloscope: Gory Discretion Shot

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