Tropescilloscope: Green-Eyed Monster

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