Tropescilloscope: Happily Married

A genuinely successful marriage. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Cold-Blooded Torture Kill It with Fire Adults Are Useless Book-Ends Early Installment Weirdness As Long as It Sounds Foreign Cool Old Lady Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Beta Couple Instant Death Bullet Fanservice Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Stalker with a Crush Loophole Abuse The Bully Punch-Clock Villain Not Even Bothering with the Accent Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Framing Device Grievous Bottley Harm Rated M for Manly Cat Scare No Ending Dark Reprise Faux Affably Evil Genre Shift Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Badass Longcoat Antagonist Title Evil Sounds Deep Guns Akimbo Award-Bait Song Artistic License – Biology Thriller Scenery Porn Worthy Opponent Big Eater Deal with the Devil Adaptational Attractiveness Stealth Hi/Bye Straight Gay Broken Bird Oh, Crap! Needs Wiki Magic Love Cool Old Guy Alliterative Name Those Two Bad Guys Ungrateful Bastard How We Got Here Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Yandere The Ditz Slashed Throat Depraved Bisexual Mighty Whitey Mind Screw The '90s Cassandra Truth Take a Third Option Gorn Department of Redundancy Department Hypocritical Humor Artistic License – Law Continuity Nod Dumb Blonde Together in Death Film Series Married to the Job Animated Credits Opening Man on Fire Eureka Moment Heel Realization For Want of a Nail Fire-Forged Friends I'm a Humanitarian Bring My Brown Pants Smoking Is Cool The Faceless Dirty Cop Fourth Date Marriage The Film of the Book Funny Foreigner Children Are Innocent Green-Eyed Monster Not Using the "Z" Word Author Appeal Your Cheating Heart Naïve Newcomer Take That! Precision F-Strike Sole Survivor World of Ham Break the Cutie Nice Guy Everyone Has Standards Pragmatic Villainy Implacable Man Anyone Can Die My Greatest Failure Fish out of Water Scary Black Man Overprotective Dad Light Is Not Good Adult Fear Knight Templar Big Applesauce Historical-Domain Character German Films Nothing Is Scarier Film Noir Index Conspicuous CG Rule of Symbolism Fan Disservice Dirty Old Man Last-Name Basis Psychological Thriller Determinator Unwitting Instigator of Doom Break the Haughty The End... Or Is It? Disappeared Dad Villain Ball The Quiet One Bloody Hilarious Protagonist Title Room Full of Crazy Back from the Dead The Mole Rousing Speech Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Bowdlerise Romantic Comedy Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Taking You with Me Mad Scientist Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Plucky Comic Relief Darkest Hour She's Got Legs Artistic License – Military Earn Your Happy Ending Retcon Anachronic Order Honor Before Reason Those Two Guys Pre-Mortem One-Liner Combat Pragmatist Nice Hat Male Frontal Nudity Broken Aesop Action Genre Sexy Discretion Shot Stock Footage The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Politically Incorrect Villain Wham Shot Token Minority Berserk Button Big Bad Riddle for the Ages Spanner in the Works Gender Flip Obfuscating Stupidity Improbable Weapon User Almost Kiss Zombie Stories Cat Fight Camera Abuse Kubrick Stare Villainous Breakdown Epic Fail Irony Coming-of-Age Story Never Trust a Trailer Shower Scene Documentary B-Movie Grey and Gray Morality Dissonant Serenity Laughing Mad Death of a Child Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Pay Evil unto Evil Important Haircut Unreliable Narrator Evil Brit No OSHA Compliance Beard of Evil Psychopathic Manchild Heroic Sacrifice Dropped a Bridge on Him Music Stories Red Shirt Air-Vent Passageway Adapted Out Developing Doomed Characters Extreme Doormat Immune to Bullets Truth in Television Film Noir La Résistance Vomit Discretion Shot Mr. Fanservice Diabolus ex Machina Action Survivor Love Triangle More Dakka Batman Gambit A.I. 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Evil vs. Evil Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Put on a Bus The Bad Guy Wins Unspoken Plan Guarantee folderlabel Big Brother Instinct Badass Bookworm Early-Bird Cameo Eye Scream This Is Gonna Suck Evil-Detecting Dog Italian Films Improvised Weapon Car Fu One-Word Title The Voiceless The Cameo Affectionate Parody Getting Crap Past the Radar He Knows Too Much The Stoner Foreshadowing Refuge in Audacity Major Injury Underreaction The Ghost Training Montage Bittersweet Ending The '50s All There in the Script Dirty Coward Fat Bastard Missing Mom Darker and Edgier Brutal Honesty timeperiod Fatal Family Photo Mama Bear Black Dude Dies First Race Against the Clock Adaptational Badass Mystery and Detective Films Intrepid Reporter It's Personal Would Hurt a Child Science Fiction Films Blood from the Mouth Bound and Gagged Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Anachronism Stew Disproportionate Retribution In the Back Vacation Films Asshole Victim Only One Name Demonic Possession Contrived Coincidence Mundane Made Awesome The Alleged Car Dogged Nice Guy Closed Circle Death by Adaptation Arranged Marriage Bi the Way What You Are in the Dark Fatal Flaw Karma Houdini Bunny-Ears Lawyer Suspiciously Specific Denial Fun with Acronyms Stealth Pun Chekhov's Gunman Sadistic Choice Heroes Want Redheads Market-Based Title Guile Hero Evil Laugh Meet Cute Eagleland Creative Closing Credits The Sociopath Flashback Crucified Hero Shot Horror Films Manly Tears Ascended Extra Broken Pedestal Creator Cameo Drill Sergeant Nasty Apocalypse How Card-Carrying Villain Evil Is Petty Undying Loyalty Deliberately Monochrome Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Big "NO!" Does This Remind You of Anything? Your Head A-Splode O.O.C. Is Serious Business Crazy Jealous Guy Novelization Butt-Monkey Silent Movie Ghost Fiction The Un-Reveal Blatant Lies NO INDOOR VOICE Tempting Fate Whole Plot Reference Spiteful Spit And Starring Beware the Nice Ones Roger Ebert: Great Movies List No-Sell Narrator Throwing Your Sword Always Works Word of God Bar Brawl Plot Hole Stylistic Suck Very Loosely Based on a True Story As You Know In Name Only The Brute Bottomless Magazines Leitmotif Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Peek-a-Boo Corpse Gratuitous English An Axe to Grind Unusual Euphemism Superhero Death Seeker Dark Is Not Evil Kill 'em All I Did What I Had to Do Body Horror Credits Gag Serial Killer Artistic License – Physics The Alcoholic Disney Death Karmic Death Slasher Movie The Lancer The Lost Lenore Serious Business Bitch in Sheep's Clothing All Just a Dream Smug Snake Have a Gay Old Time Every Car Is a Pinto Neck Snap Shipper on Deck Dramedy Rasputinian Death Abhorrent Admirer Chekhov's Gun Reckless Gun Usage Older Than They Look Not Quite Dead Captain Ersatz Henpecked Husband Bavarian Fire Drill Psycho for Hire BFG Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Bad Boss You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Red Eyes, Take Warning Foregone Conclusion The Musical Public Domain Feature Films Insane Troll Logic Logo Joke Works Set in World War II Jerkass Heel–Face Turn Interrupted Suicide One Steve Limit No Antagonist Men Are the Expendable Gender Beauty Is Never Tarnished Half the Man He Used to Be Offscreen Teleportation Eldritch Abomination Soundtrack Dissonance What the Hell, Hero? 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Celebrity Paradox Twist Ending Really Gets Around Cruel and Unusual Death Decoy Protagonist Ass Shove Brick Joke The Dreaded War Is Hell Tagline Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Faking the Dead Playing Gertrude Bad "Bad Acting" Show Within a Show All There in the Manual Death by Irony Historical Villain Upgrade A Date with Rosie Palms Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Humans Are Bastards Gilligan Cut Malevolent Masked Men Horror Comedy The Hero Dies Naked People Are Funny Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Adorkable As the Good Book Says... Determinator aka: The Determinator Distracted by the Sexy A God Am I Australian Movies Ironic Echo There Is No Kill Like Overkill Creepy Child Establishing Character Moment Laser-Guided Karma Hidden Depths My God, What Have I Done? Crapsack World Deconstruction Face Death with Dignity Sequel Escalation Age Lift Damsel in Distress Failed a Spot Check Only in It for the Money Mexican Standoff Bury Your Gays Chase Scene The Hero Insult Backfire One-Man Army Self-Deprecation Double Entendre Pimped-Out Dress Hollywood Law Better to Die than Be Killed Stepford Smiler Vitriolic Best Buds Bloodier and Gorier The Dragon No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Ripped from the Headlines Rule of Funny And the Adventure Continues Animal Title Index Police are Useless As Himself Homage Dying Moment of Awesome No-Holds-Barred Beatdown All Girls Want Bad Boys Manipulative Bastard I Need a Freaking Drink Posthumous Character Gory Discretion Shot And I Must Scream Off with His Head! 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