Tropescilloscope: Green-Eyed Monster

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