Tropescilloscope: How We Got Here

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Shoot the Shaggy Dog The Power of Love Adaptational Badass Advertised Extra Call-Forward Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Is a Crapshoot Getting Crap Past the Radar Not So Above It All Big Applesauce Evil Laugh Cool Car Shell-Shocked Veteran Black Dude Dies First Meaningful Echo Insistent Terminology Men Are the Expendable Gender Red Herring Evil vs. Evil Country Matters Punch-Clock Villain Bald of Evil Actor Allusion Fate Worse than Death Toplessness from the Back Knight Templar Shown Their Work Silent Movie Biopic Auto Erotica Bloody Hilarious Facial Horror Adaptation Expansion No OSHA Compliance Eagleland Hope Spot Pyrrhic Victory She's Got Legs Disproportionate Retribution Frame-Up Big-Bad Ensemble Cool Shades Madness Mantra The Lancer Whole Plot Reference "Well Done, Son!" 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Humans Are Bastards Sir Swears-a-Lot Dropped a Bridge on Him Heel–Face Turn Sequel Escalation Intrepid Reporter All Just a Dream Only in It for the Money No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Captain Ersatz Worthy Opponent Made of Iron Suspiciously Similar Substitute Precision F-Strike A Father to His Men The Hero Would Hit a Girl Ripped from the Headlines Overprotective Dad Black Comedy Rape Fainting Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Tap on the Head Conspicuous CG Chase Scene O.O.C. Is Serious Business Flashback Unusual Euphemism Bury Your Gays Parental Abandonment The Atoner Foregone Conclusion Hell Is That Noise A Date with Rosie Palms Psychopathic Manchild Empathic Environment Authority Equals Asskicking Badass in a Nice Suit No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Death by Irony Adaptational Villainy Skewed Priorities Vomit Indiscretion Shot Blackmail Fun with Acronyms Kill It with Fire Hair-Trigger Temper Leaning on the Fourth Wall Token Minority Red Right Hand Improbable Aiming Skills Alpha Bitch Hero Antagonist The Hero Dies Beware the Nice Ones Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Character Development Good Is Not Nice Chekhov's Gun Ambiguously Gay Dutch Angle Dark Is Not Evil Catapult Nightmare Five-Man Band Wham Shot NO INDOOR VOICE Love at First Sight Abhorrent Admirer Arranged Marriage Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Bond One-Liner All There in the Script Improbable Weapon User Earn Your Happy Ending Genre Savvy Death Seeker Camera Abuse Break the Cutie Evil Counterpart Death of a Child Jump Scare Creepy Child Deadpan Snarker Death by Sex Alas, Poor Villain Unusually Uninteresting Sight Real Life Writes the Plot What You Are in the Dark World of Ham Bottomless Magazines Super Strength Betty and Veronica True Companions Corpsing The Load Daylight Horror Random Events Plot Obstructive Bureaucrat Fingore And I Must Scream Retirony Spell My Name with an "S" Poor Communication Kills Dirty Old Man Anguished Declaration of Love Badass Boast Breaking the Fourth Wall Canon Foreigner Depraved Bisexual Adult Fear Department of Redundancy Department Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Pay Evil unto Evil Science Fiction Films Danny Peary Cult Movies List Gory Discretion Shot Henpecked Husband Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking The Remake Homage And Starring Never My Fault Storming the Castle Product Placement Exactly What It Says on the Tin Mercy Kill Not Even Bothering with the Accent Artistic License – Biology One-Man Army Awesome, but Impractical Show Within a Show Curse Cut Short Obfuscating Stupidity Dissonant Serenity Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Hollywood Darkness Amusing Injuries Foil Author Avatar Dramatic Gun Cock Evil Brit Parental Incest Beard of Evil Public Domain Feature Films It Will Never Catch On Police Brutality Daddy's Girl Gender Flip Gainax Ending Parental Neglect Punny Name Cassandra Truth Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Armor-Piercing Question Neck Snap Bound and Gagged Big Fancy House Training Montage Happily Married Psychological Thriller Stepford Smiler Slap-Slap-Kiss Manly Tears Broken Pedestal Pretty in Mink Coming-of-Age Story Extremely Short Timespan Comically Missing the Point Rule of Three Villain with Good Publicity Alliterative Name Hate Sink Crazy Jealous Guy Nice Hat Bolivian Army Ending Ambiguous Disorder Woman Scorned Wounded Gazelle Gambit Break the Haughty The Big Guy The Place Oh, Crap! 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Ironic Echo Smug Snake Scenery Porn Would Hurt a Child Flipping the Bird Friend to All Children Credits Gag All Girls Want Bad Boys Rule of Funny Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Brick Joke Grievous Bottley Harm Rule of Symbolism Revenge Fantastic Racism Corrupt Corporate Executive Stealth Pun Last-Name Basis Dogged Nice Guy Shower Scene Too Dumb to Live Despair Event Horizon Japanese Films Establishing Character Moment Gone Horribly Right Evil Sounds Deep Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Undying Loyalty My Greatest Failure Central Theme Developing Doomed Characters Stuff Blowing Up Only Known by Their Nickname Man on Fire Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Children Are Innocent Wham Line Broken Aesop Arc Words Reckless Gun Usage Belligerent Sexual Tension Here We Go Again! Real Life Trailers Always Spoil Beta Couple Bad Boss Adaptational Attractiveness Offscreen Teleportation Sacrificial Lion Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Bare Your Midriff Adults Are Useless Neck Lift Better to Die than Be Killed Male Frontal Nudity Kick the Son of a Bitch Celebrity Paradox And the Adventure Continues Motor Mouth Almost Kiss Drowning My Sorrows The Chick Evil Plan Protagonist Title Historical In-Joke Easily Forgiven Genre Shift Superhero Tempting Fate Spiritual Successor Early-Bird Cameo Hero of Another Story Destination Defenestration Ghost Fiction The Smurfette Principle Playing Gertrude Running Gag Cool Old Guy Unwitting Instigator of Doom Dirty Coward MacGuffin The Un-Reveal Dark Action Girl Fiery Redhead Villain Ball The Oner Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Lock and Load Montage Card-Carrying Villain Obviously Evil Unreliable Narrator Artistic License – Geography Heroes Want Redheads Ugly Guy, Hot Wife The '90s