Tropescilloscope: Humans Are Bastards

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