Tropescilloscope: Gory Discretion Shot

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