Tropescilloscope: Hooker with a Heart of Gold

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Epilogue Dark Is Not Evil Happily Married Retired Badass Dying Moment of Awesome Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Big Brother Instinct Frame-Up Dressing as the Enemy Femme Fatale Lampshade Hanging An Axe to Grind Danny Peary Cult Movies List All for Nothing Alas, Poor Villain Training Montage May–December Romance Black Best Friend Blonde, Brunette, Redhead A Minor Kidroduction The '90s Spiteful Spit Fun with Acronyms Animated Credits Opening Brutal Honesty Riddle for the Ages Actor Allusion Take That! Small Name, Big Ego Camp Gay Moment Killer Trailers Always Spoil Adaptation Expansion Ominous Latin Chanting Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Is a Crapshoot Daddy's Girl The Oner Exactly What It Says on the Tin Adaptational Villainy Undying Loyalty Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Red Herring Butt-Monkey Self-Deprecation Cain and Abel Morality Pet Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Artistic License – Military Monumental Damage British Films Deconstruction She Cleans Up Nicely Biopic The Chessmaster Death Glare Playing Gertrude All Girls Want Bad Boys Bring My Brown Pants Hong Kong Films Eagleland Police are Useless Driven to Suicide Handicapped Badass Evil Brit Light Is Not Good Dirty Coward Advertised Extra Older Than They Look World of Ham Ascended Extra Lock and Load Montage And Starring Death by Sex Parental Substitute Documentary Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday The Alleged Car Abhorrent Admirer Dirty Old Man Humiliation Conga Artistic License – Biology Really Gets Around Dissonant Serenity Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Bare Your Midriff Big Bad B-Movie Leitmotif Motor Mouth Rule of Funny Punny Name Insult Backfire It's All About Me Spell My Name with an "S" Damsel in Distress Hero of Another Story Shell-Shocked Veteran Wretched Hive Same Language Dub Downer Ending Refuge in Audacity Dark Reprise Token Minority Drowning My Sorrows Only Known by Their Nickname Stalker with a Crush The Place Works Set in World War II Corrupt Corporate Executive Bilingual Bonus Horror Comedy Bland-Name Product Establishing Character Moment Brother–Sister Incest Animal Title Index Disproportionate Retribution No Name Given Took a Level in Jerkass Ms. Fanservice Character Development Mind Screw Laser-Guided Karma Aside Glance Fourth Date Marriage Intergenerational Friendship Only Sane Man Antagonist Title The Smurfette Principle Canadian Movies Those Two Guys Adults Are Useless Villain with Good Publicity Smoking Is Cool Bald of Evil Exact Words Artistic License – Geography Fire-Forged Friends In the Back I Need a Freaking Drink Composite Character Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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Everyone Has Standards Destination Defenestration Important Haircut Dirty Cop Cowboy Cop Suddenly SHOUTING! Gold Digger It Will Never Catch On Dropped a Bridge on Him Book-Ends Mr. Fanservice Insane Troll Logic The Power of Love The Un-Reveal O.O.C. Is Serious Business Neck Lift Shoot the Shaggy Dog Back from the Dead Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Badass Boast Call-Forward Big Applesauce Redemption Equals Death Loophole Abuse "Well Done, Son!" Guy You Killed My Father I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Setting Update Off with His Head! 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The Musical Tap on the Head Hate Sink Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Race Against the Clock Woman Scorned Red Right Hand Would Hurt a Child Spared by the Adaptation Heroic Sacrifice Not Even Bothering with the Accent Cruel and Unusual Death The Remake Tempting Fate Attempted Rape Ungrateful Bastard From Nobody to Nightmare Ironic Echo Men Are the Expendable Gender Closed Circle Sacrificial Lion Rule of Symbolism Dumb Blonde Foreshadowing Cloudcuckoolander Twist Ending Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Precision F-Strike Creative Closing Credits Black Dude Dies First Eiffel Tower Effect And the Adventure Continues The Dreaded Accidental Murder Rasputinian Death Every Car Is a Pinto Bound and Gagged Fate Worse than Death Oh, Crap! 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