Tropescilloscope: I Have Your Wife

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