Tropescilloscope: Hooker with a Heart of Gold

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