Tropescilloscope: Green-Eyed Monster

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