Tropescilloscope: Have a Gay Old Time

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