Tropescilloscope: I Have Your Wife

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Exactly What It Says on the Tin Betty and Veronica Fingore The Great Depression Every Car Is a Pinto Ironic Echo Corrupt Corporate Executive Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Names to Run Away from Really Fast Evil Sounds Deep Determinator aka: The Determinator Covers Always Lie Did Not Get the Girl Apocalypse How Jerk Jock Badass Normal Spared by the Adaptation Dirty Old Man Sinister Minister Combat Pragmatist Stealth Pun Early-Bird Cameo Bavarian Fire Drill Heel Realization As Himself Neck Lift Shipper on Deck Card-Carrying Villain Brainless Beauty Very Loosely Based on a True Story Retirony From Nobody to Nightmare Sanity Slippage Big Bad The Stoner Didn't Think This Through Dull Surprise Frame-Up Funny Foreigner Attempted Rape Bottomless Magazines Creator Cameo Laughing Mad Drill Sergeant Nasty Those Two Guys Only Known by Their Nickname folderlabel Rule of Cool Badass Longcoat Artistic License – Military Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Neck Snap Handicapped Badass Hong Kong Films Big Damn Heroes Fiery Redhead Wretched Hive Tap on the Head Does Not Like Shoes Asshole Victim Black Best Friend Big Brother Instinct Psychopathic Manchild Easily Forgiven Heterosexual Life-Partners Not Using the "Z" Word Aluminum Christmas Trees No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Documentary Totally Radical Fire-Forged Friends Older Than They Look Daylight Horror It Can Think Police are Useless Large Ham Calling the Old Man Out Dumb Blonde Once More, with Clarity! Freudian Excuse B-Movie Danny Peary Cult Movies List Slashed Throat Arc Words And the Adventure Continues Agony of the Feet Plot Hole Continuity Nod The End... Or Is It? Same Language Dub Light Is Not Good Together in Death Mythology Gag Beware the Nice Ones I'm a Humanitarian It's Personal Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Small Name, Big Ego Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Storming the Castle Red Oni, Blue Oni Bullying a Dragon Manly Tears Took a Level in Badass Big Fancy House Action Girl Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Not What It Looks Like Superhero Everyone Has Standards Outrun the Fireball Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Double Entendre Video Credits Meaningful Background Event Silent Movie Adaptation Dye-Job Crapsack World Bald of Evil Cool Old Guy A Father to His Men Evil Counterpart Evil vs. Evil The Chessmaster Adaptation Name Change You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Adorkable Politically Incorrect Villain Dark Is Not Evil Blood Knight Twist Ending Chiaroscuro Protagonist Title Amusing Injuries Death by Adaptation Plucky Comic Relief Offscreen Moment of Awesome Word of God Dramedy Reckless Gun Usage Hero of Another Story Race Lift Unresolved Sexual Tension Bond One-Liner Irony Karmic Death You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Is Serious Business Punch-Clock Villain Suspiciously Specific Denial The Ace Japanese Films The Un-Reveal War Is Hell Expy Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Make It Look Like an Accident Bury Your Gays Zombie Stories Title Drop '80s Hair Off with His Head! Dies Wide Open Sequel Hook All for Nothing Advertised Extra Instant Death Bullet Babies Ever After Eiffel Tower Effect Really Gets Around "Awesome McCool" Name Groin Attack Cowboy Cop Rewatch Bonus Hypocrite Stealth Hi/Bye Affectionate Parody Bad Boss Big Eater Funny Background Event Romantic False Lead Eye Scream Love at First Sight Adaptation Distillation Heroes Want Redheads Big Bad Duumvirate Men Are the Expendable Gender A.I. Is a Crapshoot Would Hurt a Child An Axe to Grind Animal Motifs One-Word Title Brick Joke Disney Death Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Anyone Can Die Leitmotif Auto Erotica Obfuscating Stupidity Beta Couple Green-Eyed Monster Drugs Are Bad Character Development Blatant Lies Adaptational Villainy Dwindling Party Action Genre Gratuitous English N-Word Privileges Token Minority No-Sell I Need a Freaking Drink Horror Films Bi the Way Eureka Moment Rousing Speech Cool Shades Adaptational Heroism Film Series No Celebrities Were Harmed Pretty Little Headshots Psychological Thriller Cool Guns Fatal Family Photo Market-Based Title Determinator Guns Akimbo Failed a Spot Check Hollywood Darkness Catch-Phrase Recycled IN SPACE! 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Naïve Newcomer Captain Ersatz Works Set in World War II Downer Ending Flipping the Bird Adaptation Expansion This Is Gonna Suck Badass Boast Enemy Mine Heroic BSoD Not Quite Dead Fake Shemp Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping You Killed My Father Air-Vent Passageway Call-Back Fourth Date Marriage The Starscream Berserk Button Needs Wiki Magic Love Improbable Aiming Skills Big "NO!" Pyrrhic Victory Artistic License – Law Evil-Detecting Dog Author Avatar Defiant to the End Bloodier and Gorier Extreme Doormat Adaptational Attractiveness Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Cat Fight Mystery and Detective Films Spiritual Successor Darker and Edgier Madness Mantra Closed Circle Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Brother–Sister Incest As the Good Book Says... Manipulative Bastard Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Gilligan Cut Self-Deprecation Precision F-Strike Defrosting Ice Queen Knife Nut Driven to Suicide Hair-Trigger Temper Stepford Smiler Hoist by His Own Petard Your Head A-Splode Missing Mom Fantastic Racism Hypocritical Humor Scenery Gorn Sole Survivor Unusual Euphemism Soft Glass Made of Explodium Interrupted Suicide Let's Get Dangerous! Bowdlerise The Chick Camera Abuse Mama Bear Back from the Dead Demonic Possession The Alcoholic Peek-a-Boo Corpse Poor Communication Kills Broken Aesop Costume Porn Only One Name Grey and Gray Morality Cool Car Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Awesome, but Impractical Bloody Hilarious All Girls Want Bad Boys Suddenly SHOUTING! Anachronism Stew Shown Their Work Country Matters For the Evulz Italian Films Dropped a Bridge on Him Black Comedy The Stinger Mundane Made Awesome Cat Scare Thriller Alas, Poor Villain Silence Is Golden Hell Is That Noise Woman in White Offscreen Teleportation Car Fu Kill It with Fire Corpsing Hidden Depths Red Herring Ax-Crazy Public Domain Feature Films Abhorrent Admirer The Reveal Television Movie Index Earn Your Happy Ending Police Brutality Arch-Enemy A Minor Kidroduction Scary Black Man Love Triangle Villain Ball The Voiceless Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Wham Shot Adapted Out Not So Different Armor-Piercing Question As Long as It Sounds Foreign Intrepid Reporter Red Eyes, Take Warning The Dog Bites Back Homage Idiot Ball From Bad to Worse Christmas Movies Index "The Reason You Suck" Speech Rich Bitch Training Montage Early Installment Weirdness Guile Hero Eldritch Abomination Narrator All Just a Dream The Cameo Evil Is Petty Mr. Fanservice Cain and Abel Cool Old Lady Broken Bird Diabolus ex Machina Mugging the Monster I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Leave the Camera Running "Well Done, Son!" Guy Four-Temperament Ensemble Due to the Dead Those Two Bad Guys Blackmail Real Life No Ending Oh, Crap! Left the Background Music On Parental Substitute Death by Irony Dressing as the Enemy Belligerent Sexual Tension Even Evil Has Loved Ones Improbable Weapon User Rasputinian Death Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Genre Throwback Book-Ends Straight Gay He Who Fights Monsters Conspicuous CG Deliberate Values Dissonance Face Death with Dignity Would Hit a Girl Playing Gertrude Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Chase Scene Cassandra Truth Deliberately Monochrome Translation Convention The Big Guy Monumental Damage No Antagonist Adult Fear Male Gaze Music Stories Drowning My Sorrows What the Hell, Hero? Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Almost Kiss And Starring Redemption Equals Death Dual Wielding Creative Closing Credits Lock and Load Montage Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" I Did What I Had to Do More Dakka Adaptational Badass Papa Wolf Decoy Protagonist One-Man Army Creepy Child Revenge Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Based on a True Story Authority Equals Asskicking Empathic Environment Fate Worse than Death Composite Character Only Sane Man Loads and Loads of Characters Married to the Job Product Placement Kick the Dog The '80s Moment Killer Slasher Smile Alpha Bitch Retcon The Ditz Deadpan Snarker The Casanova Here We Go Again! Bland-Name Product German Films Star-Crossed Lovers The X of Y Mistaken for Gay The Stoic Shower Scene Major Injury Underreaction Cluster F-Bomb Pet the Dog Never Found the Body Getting Crap Past the Radar Reality Ensues Butt-Monkey Noodle Incident Serious Business The Bad Guy Wins Half the Man He Used to Be Insult Backfire Race Against the Clock Super Strength The Hero Dies Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor One Steve Limit Extremely Short Timespan Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Tranquil Fury Meaningful Echo In Medias Res Canon Foreigner Parental Incest Up to Eleven Manic Pixie Dream Girl A Date with Rosie Palms Chekhov's Gunman Break the Haughty Adults Are Useless Reasonable Authority Figure The Dreaded Leaning on the Fourth Wall All There in the Script Be Careful What You Wish For He Knows Too Much Villain Protagonist The Hero Villain with Good Publicity The Load Dark and Troubled Past World of Ham The Power of Love Whole Plot Reference Freeze-Frame Bonus Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Properly Paranoid Author Appeal The Alleged Car Tagline Science Fiction Films Undying Loyalty All Men Are Perverts Fish out of Water Beard of Evil Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Antagonist Title Exact Words Cruel and Unusual Death Accidental Misnaming Blood from the Mouth Fatal Flaw Taking You with Me Gorn Shirtless Scene Chekhov's Gun Mighty Whitey It's All About Me Serial Killer The Smart Guy Crucified Hero Shot The Cavalry Rule of Symbolism Shell-Shocked Veteran Red Right Hand The Quiet One Bring My Brown Pants Posthumous Character Fat Bastard The Remake BFG The Bully Implacable Man Disguised in Drag Non-Indicative Name Actually Pretty Funny 20 Minutes into the Future Bunny-Ears Lawyer Obviously Evil timeperiod Affably Evil Genre Savvy Unwitting Instigator of Doom Visual Pun Never Trust a Trailer Not Even Bothering with the Accent Gone Horribly Right Coming-of-Age Story Disappeared Dad Horror Comedy Throwing Your Sword Always Works Curb-Stomp Battle Ominous Latin Chanting Villain Song Ship Tease Sassy Black Woman Evil Plan How We Got Here Beauty Is Never Tarnished Epic Fail Imagine Spot Re-Cut Crazy-Prepared Pragmatic Villainy Your Cheating Heart Anti-Hero Informed Ability Black and Gray Morality Bittersweet Ending Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Celebrity Paradox Loophole Abuse Establishing Character Moment Take a Third Option