Tropescilloscope: He Knows Too Much

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

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Is a Crapshoot Hair-Trigger Temper Fourth Date Marriage Big Damn Heroes Insistent Terminology Freeze-Frame Bonus Trailers Always Spoil Shown Their Work I Did What I Had to Do Zombie Stories Death by Adaptation Homage Obfuscating Stupidity The Bad Guy Wins Irony Madness Mantra Public Domain Feature Films Punny Name Fingore Mad Scientist Grievous Bottley Harm Department of Redundancy Department Tranquil Fury Animated Credits Opening Fate Worse than Death Sir Swears-a-Lot Dirty Cop Man on Fire Guns Akimbo Posthumous Character Unreliable Narrator No Celebrities Were Harmed Heroes Want Redheads Truth in Television Only in It for the Money Daylight Horror Those Wacky Nazis Bad Boss Jerkass Insult Backfire Even Evil Has Standards Time Skip No OSHA Compliance Gorn Blackmail Boom, Headshot! 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Pay Evil unto Evil Beard of Evil Aside Glance Bond Villain Stupidity The Bully An Arm and a Leg Science Fiction Films Fanservice Extra "Shaggy Dog" Story The Smart Guy Ambiguously Gay British Films Accidental Murder Downer Ending An Axe to Grind Male Gaze timeperiod Genre Savvy Crazy-Prepared Red Herring Death of a Child Translation Convention Drugs Are Bad Determinator The Power of Love Left the Background Music On Not Using the "Z" Word Getting Crap Past the Radar Manipulative Bastard Take That! Only Sane Man Very Loosely Based on a True Story Retcon Stuff Blowing Up One Steve Limit Crucified Hero Shot Anti-Villain Darkest Hour Would Hurt a Child Due to the Dead Decoy Protagonist Artistic License – Geography Anti-Hero Only One Name Deal with the Devil Cowboy Cop Becoming the Mask Unusual Euphemism Frame-Up Hero of Another Story Historical Hero Upgrade Nothing Is Scarier Running Gag Ugly Guy, Hot Wife O.O.C. 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Australian Movies Agony of the Feet Death Glare This Is Gonna Suck What Happened to the Mouse? Spared by the Adaptation Animal Title Index Scenery Gorn Lock and Load Montage Slap-Slap-Kiss Evil Cannot Comprehend Good After the End Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Bring My Brown Pants Serial Killer Deliberate Values Dissonance Laser-Guided Karma Disappeared Dad Killed Mid-Sentence Rule of Cool Title Drop Manchild The Brute Almost Kiss Black Comedy Rape Affably Evil Artistic License – Biology Heel Realization Visual Pun Depraved Bisexual Big Applesauce Eye Scream Line-of-Sight Name Mama Bear Would Hit a Girl Mundane Made Awesome Eureka Moment The Alcoholic The Faceless The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Easily Forgiven Sassy Black Woman Oh, Crap! Russian Films Badass Bookworm Kubrick Stare And Starring Never My Fault Black Comedy As Himself Destination Defenestration '80s Hair Darker and Edgier Improvised Weapon Film Noir Not So Different Parental Abandonment The Stinger Thriller Epic Fail Cat Fight Abhorrent Admirer Central Theme Instant Death Bullet Meaningful Name Papa Wolf Evil Plan Bunny-Ears Lawyer A Father to His Men Brainless Beauty True Companions Eagleland Redemption Equals Death Knife Nut Cassandra Truth Didn't Think This Through The Dog Bites Back He Knows Too Much Heroic BSoD Knight Templar German Films Vampire Fiction Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Only a Flesh Wound Daddy's Girl Country Matters Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Author Appeal Stepford Smiler Action Genre Token Minority And the Adventure Continues Historical Villain Upgrade Bland-Name Product Not Even Bothering with the Accent The Place The Chick Storming the Castle The Sociopath Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Mood Whiplash Only Known by Their Nickname Pyrrhic Victory Vitriolic Best Buds The X of Y Hollywood Darkness Call-Back A Minor Kidroduction One-Word Title Bare Your Midriff Age Lift You Have Failed Me Yandere Made of Iron Police Brutality The Mole Missing Mom Romantic Comedy Defrosting Ice Queen Straight Gay Hope Spot Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Contrived Coincidence Enemy Mine Men Are the Expendable Gender Epic Movie Offscreen Teleportation Captain Obvious Evil vs. Evil Girl-on-Girl Is Hot The Alleged Car Casting Gag Early-Bird Cameo Actor Allusion Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Deliberately Monochrome Unresolved Sexual Tension Vomit Discretion Shot Totally Radical Costume Porn There Is No Kill Like Overkill Ungrateful Bastard Once More, with Clarity! 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Mighty Whitey French Films Shell-Shocked Veteran Guile Hero Broken Pedestal Rasputinian Death What You Are in the Dark Martial Arts Movie Despair Event Horizon Sci-Fi Horror Disguised in Drag Body Horror Demonic Possession Red Oni, Blue Oni Foreshadowing Cruel and Unusual Death Even Evil Has Loved Ones Music Stories Bloody Hilarious You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Cool Old Lady Tap on the Head Beware the Nice Ones Drives Like Crazy Catapult Nightmare Dies Wide Open Badass in a Nice Suit Parental Neglect Antagonist Title Market-Based Title Dutch Angle Captain Ersatz Pragmatic Adaptation Badass Grandpa Eldritch Abomination Rule of Symbolism Whole Plot Reference Not So Stoic Rape as Drama Improbable Weapon User Meet Cute Fanservice Major Injury Underreaction Foregone Conclusion Eyepatch of Power Crapsack World I Have Your Wife Four-Temperament Ensemble No Antagonist "Well Done, Son!" 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