Tropescilloscope: I Have Your Wife

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