Tropescilloscope: Heterosexual Life-Partners

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Based on a True Story Cool Guns Beware the Nice Ones Your Cheating Heart Every Car Is a Pinto Deliberate Values Dissonance Red Herring Corpsing The Load Wham Line Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Enemy Mine Visual Pun Funny Foreigner Pretty in Mink Slashed Throat Male Gaze Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Fanservice Extra Getting Crap Past the Radar Call-Forward Fantasy Films Get Out! Belligerent Sexual Tension Only Known by Their Nickname Punny Name Big Bad Duumvirate Once More, with Clarity! Corrupt Corporate Executive Damsel in Distress Only Sane Man Not Quite Dead Bowdlerise The '70s Sassy Black Woman Disguised in Drag Ship Tease Cassandra Truth Psychological Thriller Real Life Writes the Plot Noodle Incident The Musical Eye Scream Love at First Sight Artistic License – History Artistic License – Physics Redshirt Army Gilligan Cut Vampire Fiction May–December Romance Villain with Good Publicity Spiritual Successor Evil Laugh Broken Pedestal The '80s Shoot the Shaggy Dog How We Got Here Hypocritical Humor Attempted Rape Really Gets Around Needs Wiki Magic Love Our Zombies Are Different Fourth Date Marriage Chekhov's Gunman Last-Name Basis Film Noir Improbable Weapon User Interrupted Suicide Knight Templar Brainless Beauty Badass Boast Running Gag Villain Song Those Two Bad Guys Training Montage Irony Kubrick Stare Playing Gertrude Diabolus ex Machina Half the Man He Used to Be Knife Nut Boom, Headshot! Love Triangle Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Mugging the Monster Translation Convention Bittersweet Ending Big Applesauce Even Evil Has Standards Peek-a-Boo Corpse Book-Ends Woman Scorned Kill It with Fire The Great Depression No Ending Daylight Horror Nice Hat Costume Porn Pyrrhic Victory Creepy Child Rousing Speech Undying Loyalty Genre Savvy Shout-Out Scary Black Man Implacable Man Sole Survivor Index of Film Westerns Conspicuous CG The Reveal Evil Is Petty Handicapped Badass Dressing as the Enemy Mama Bear An Axe to Grind Deliberately Monochrome Abusive Parents Silent Movie Happily Married "The Reason You Suck" Speech Combat Pragmatist Beard of Evil Genre Throwback Hair-Trigger Temper Arranged Marriage Race Against the Clock Dual Wielding Animal Title Index Wicked Cultured Anti-Villain Fun with Acronyms Death of a Child Leaning on the Fourth Wall Death Seeker Framing Device Film Noir Index Famous Last Words Breaking the Fourth Wall Meaningful Name Adaptational Heroism Rated M for Manly Jerk Jock Adapted Out Horror Comedy Demoted to Extra Mundane Made Awesome All Men Are Perverts Pretty Little Headshots The End... Or Is It? Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Evil-Detecting Dog Camera Abuse Badass Normal World of Ham Recycled IN SPACE! Action Survivor Mind Screw Beta Couple A.I. Is a Crapshoot Canon Foreigner Foil It's All About Me 20 Minutes into the Future Villain Ball Never Trust a Trailer One-Word Title The Atoner Mistaken for Gay Neck Lift Offscreen Moment of Awesome Together in Death Man on Fire Outrun the Fireball Gratuitous English La Résistance The Power of Love My Beloved Smother Police are Useless Vacation Films Historical Hero Upgrade Fanservice Captain Ersatz Scenery Gorn Affectionate Parody Black Comedy Rich Bitch Auto Erotica Dramatic Irony Lock and Load Montage You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Actor Allusion Double-Meaning Title Ass Shove Curb-Stomp Battle Posthumous Character Card-Carrying Villain Serial Killer Fake Shemp Meaningful Echo The Ghost The Film of the Book Cool Shades Woman in White Becoming the Mask Big Brother Instinct Animal Motifs Bury Your Gays Facial Horror Morality Pet Gorn Big-Bad Ensemble Armor-Piercing Question Bloody Hilarious Market-Based Title Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Bunny-Ears Lawyer Nice Guy Too Dumb to Live Sanity Slippage Flashback Disney Villain Death Military and Warfare Films Politically Incorrect Villain Tranquil Fury Bavarian Fire Drill Music Stories Slasher Smile Bloodier and Gorier Hong Kong Films As You Know Spared by the Adaptation More Dakka Cruel and Unusual Death "Well Done, Son!" Guy Properly Paranoid Badass in a Nice Suit Mighty Whitey Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Karmic Death Scenery Porn Retirony Domestic Abuse True Companions The Stinger The Ace Greater-Scope Villain Room Full of Crazy Precision F-Strike Henpecked Husband Expository Hairstyle Change Camp Gay Off with His Head! Exactly What It Says on the Tin Heroic Sacrifice Downer Ending Accidental Misnaming Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Big "NO!" Your Head A-Splode Cat Fight Truth in Television Adaptation Distillation Bad "Bad Acting" Line-of-Sight Name Wounded Gazelle Gambit Historical Villain Upgrade Hoist by His Own Petard The Chick Monumental Damage Meet Cute Humans Are Bastards Leave the Camera Running Idiot Ball Scare Chord Ghost Fiction Dumb Blonde Eiffel Tower Effect Parental Neglect Redemption Equals Death Berserk Button Italian Films Distracted by the Sexy Fiery Redhead She Cleans Up Nicely Sealed Evil in a Can Be Careful What You Wish For The Alleged Car Drugs Are Bad The Faceless Ironic Echo Drill Sergeant Nasty Missing Mom Daddy's Girl Crucified Hero Shot Would Hit a Girl Red Right Hand Dwindling Party All for Nothing Villainous Breakdown Catch-Phrase Anguished Declaration of Love An Aesop Foreshadowing Creator Cameo Affably Evil One-Man Army Pre-Mortem One-Liner Exact Words And I Must Scream The Oner Men Are the Expendable Gender Suspiciously Specific Denial Establishing Character Moment Dissonant Serenity N-Word Privileges Anachronism Stew Not Using the "Z" Word Disney Death Kill 'em All Our Vampires Are Different Bolivian Army Ending I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Darker and Edgier Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Demonic Possession The Stoner Police Brutality Rule of Funny Children Are Innocent Asshole Victim Time Skip German Films Final Girl Country Matters Those Two Guys O.O.C. 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Fantastic Racism Very Loosely Based on a True Story Adaptation Expansion Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Black Dude Dies First NO INDOOR VOICE Took a Level in Badass Hooker with a Heart of Gold folderlabel Superhero Empathic Environment Alliterative Name Big Eater Science Fiction Films Married to the Job Honor Before Reason The Stoic Celebrity Paradox The Smart Guy Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Papa Wolf Australian Movies Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Crazy-Prepared Riddle for the Ages Same Language Dub B-Movie Fish out of Water Sir Swears-a-Lot Insane Troll Logic Dying Moment of Awesome Vomit Indiscretion Shot Determinator Advertised Extra I'm a Humanitarian Tagline Shell-Shocked Veteran Television Movie Index No Name Given Plucky Comic Relief Better to Die than Be Killed Hero of Another Story The Lancer Aside Glance Never Found the Body Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Yandere Broken Aesop Only a Flesh Wound Screw the Money, I Have Rules! The Quiet One What the Hell, Hero? Friend to All Children Funny Background Event Naked People Are Funny And the Adventure Continues Older Than They Look Awesome, but Impractical Light Is Not Good Intrepid Reporter Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Say My Name Improvised Weapon Chewing the Scenery Composite Character Blood from the Mouth Easily Forgiven Femme Fatale Dark Reprise Horror Films Sexy Discretion Shot Spell My Name with an "S" Ms. Fanservice Flipping the Bird Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Paper-Thin Disguise Big Damn Heroes Crazy Jealous Guy Not So Different Character Development Ambiguous Disorder Reasonable Authority Figure "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue "Shaggy Dog" Story Obviously Evil No OSHA Compliance Ominous Latin Chanting Black Comedy Rape Sports Stories Cool Car Offscreen Teleportation Hollywood Darkness Laughing Mad Four-Temperament Ensemble Dark Action Girl Match Cut Whole Plot Reference Amoral Attorney Heterosexual Life-Partners Guns Akimbo Public Domain Feature Films Names to Run Away from Really Fast Stalker with a Crush It Can Think Death by Adaptation Improbable Aiming Skills Beauty Is Never Tarnished In Medias Res From Bad to Worse Sacrificial Lion Twist Ending Cowboy Cop A Date with Rosie Palms For Want of a Nail Fainting Jump Scare No-Sell Christmas Movies Index Stuff Blowing Up No Good Deed Goes Unpunished One Steve Limit Dutch Angle Protagonist Title Random Events Plot Insult Backfire Mercy Kill Bilingual Bonus The Voiceless The Brute Apocalypse How He Who Fights Monsters Red Eyes, Take Warning Almost Kiss Not So Stoic The Cavalry Gold Digger Epic Movie Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Token Minority Stylistic Suck The Bad Guy Wins Video Credits Deal with the Devil Wrong Genre Savvy Pet the Dog Historical In-Joke Made of Explodium Romantic False Lead Fatal Flaw Let's Get Dangerous! 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Crapsack World All There in the Script Cain and Abel Earn Your Happy Ending Dull Surprise Made of Iron Hidden Depths In Name Only Japanese Films Badass Longcoat All Girls Want Bad Boys Car Fu No Antagonist Dropped a Bridge on Him Leitmotif Shower Scene Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Double Entendre Madness Mantra Extreme Doormat Butt-Monkey Chiaroscuro Body Horror Animated Credits Opening French Films I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Storming the Castle Guile Hero A Father to His Men A God Am I Parental Abandonment Casting Gag The X of Y I Need a Freaking Drink Evil Sounds Deep Slap-Slap-Kiss Parental Incest Bar Brawl Nothing Is Scarier Foregone Conclusion Red Oni, Blue Oni Coming-of-Age Story Non-Indicative Name Male Frontal Nudity Loophole Abuse Roaring Rampage of Revenge Dirty Coward Unwitting Instigator of Doom Villain Opening Scene Evil vs. Evil Kick the Son of a Bitch Historical-Domain Character Creative Closing Credits Chekhov's Skill Drives Like Crazy Alpha Bitch No Celebrities Were Harmed The Lost Lenore Artistic License – Military Eyepatch of Power You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Sinister Minister The '50s