Tropescilloscope: Green-Eyed Monster

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