Tropescilloscope: Green-Eyed Monster

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They Really Do Love Each Other Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Arranged Marriage Intergenerational Friendship Real Life Epic Movie Badass Boast Foil Mistaken for Gay Never Trust a Trailer Bilingual Bonus Took a Level in Jerkass Fantasy Films Toplessness from the Back Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Papa Wolf Cat Fight As Long as It Sounds Foreign Arch-Enemy Pre-Asskicking One-Liner She's Got Legs Canadian Movies And the Adventure Continues Hoist by His Own Petard Hair-Trigger Temper Ungrateful Bastard Blood Knight Have a Gay Old Time You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Malevolent Masked Men Camp Gay Authority Equals Asskicking Revenge Vampire Fiction Re-Cut Dies Wide Open Vitriolic Best Buds Unwitting Instigator of Doom The Reveal Smug Snake Amusing Injuries Funny Background Event Leaning on the Fourth Wall Those Two Guys Woman Scorned Public Domain Feature Films Everyone Has Standards Whole Plot Reference Laughing Mad Diabolus ex Machina Hidden Depths Animal Motifs Slasher Movie Match Cut Wounded Gazelle Gambit The Big Guy Recycled IN SPACE! 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