Tropescilloscope: He Knows Too Much

He knows my secret: he must die. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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They Really Do Love Each Other Bury Your Gays Random Events Plot Smug Snake The Load Stealth Pun Did Not Get the Girl Sassy Black Woman Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Heel Realization Logo Joke Not Quite Dead Big Bad Dogged Nice Guy Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Amusing Injuries Heroes Want Redheads No Antagonist All for Nothing La Résistance Humans Are Bastards Motor Mouth Body Horror As Himself Psychological Thriller Does This Remind You of Anything? Action Girl Never Found the Body Put on a Bus Curb-Stomp Battle I Did What I Had to Do Villain Protagonist Obstructive Bureaucrat A Father to His Men Police are Useless Pragmatic Adaptation Belligerent Sexual Tension Lampshade Hanging Hate Sink Mind Screw Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Grievous Bottley Harm Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Shown Their Work Wham Shot Serial Killer Anachronic Order Cool Old Guy British Films Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Dull Surprise Rewatch Bonus Death Glare Homage Deconstruction An Axe to Grind Red Right Hand Video Credits B-Movie Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Award-Bait Song Slasher Movie Shout-Out O.O.C. Is Serious Business Depraved Bisexual Bond Villain Stupidity Shut Up, Hannibal! Green-Eyed Monster Butt-Monkey Pay Evil unto Evil Laser-Guided Karma Plot Hole Take a Third Option The Smurfette Principle Ms. Fanservice Faux Affably Evil Anguished Declaration of Love Creepy Child The Hero Dies Ghost Fiction Science Fiction Films Papa Wolf Dramatic Irony Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Pretty in Mink Heroic Sacrifice Cassandra Truth Historical Villain Upgrade Kick the Dog Double-Meaning Title Every Car Is a Pinto Celebrity Paradox Anti-Hero Victoria's Secret Compartment Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Breaking the Fourth Wall Christmas Movies Index Bait-and-Switch Red Eyes, Take Warning Dies Wide Open Apocalypse How Men Are the Expendable Gender Training Montage Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Fatal Flaw Brainless Beauty "The Reason You Suck" Speech Unusually Uninteresting Sight Parental Incest Affably Evil The Film of the Book Mystery and Detective Films The Bad Guy Wins Alas, Poor Villain Face Death with Dignity Gorn She's Got Legs Downer Ending You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Red Shirt Corrupt Corporate Executive Eyepatch of Power Film Noir Thriller The Bully Shower Scene Didn't Think This Through Sequel Escalation Comically Missing the Point I Need a Freaking Drink Rich Bitch Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Stuff Blowing Up Paper-Thin Disguise Ass Shove Overprotective Dad Truth in Television Creator Cameo Five-Man Band Punch-Clock Villain Loads and Loads of Characters Honor Before Reason Animated Credits Opening You Killed My Father Guns Akimbo Silence Is Golden Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Setting Update Big Bad Duumvirate A.I. Is a Crapshoot Shell-Shocked Veteran Blatant Lies Works Set in World War II Daddy's Girl Freeze-Frame Bonus Deadpan Snarker Bowdlerise Batman Gambit '80s Hair Silent Movie Based on a True Story In the Back It Can Think Important Haircut Rule of Cool The End... Or Is It? 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For! Emphasis! 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