Tropescilloscope: Impaled with Extreme Prejudice

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Cool Shades Driven to Suicide Historical In-Joke Pimped-Out Dress Left the Background Music On Kids Are Cruel Needs Wiki Magic Love Impaled with Extreme Prejudice The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Imagine Spot Demonic Possession Fatal Flaw Mistaken for Gay Early Installment Weirdness He Who Fights Monsters Training Montage Calling the Old Man Out Adapted Out Big Bad Duumvirate Butt-Monkey The Lost Lenore The Stoic From Bad to Worse Animal Motifs Poor Communication Kills Race Against the Clock And I Must Scream Big Fancy House Rule of Cool The Un-Reveal Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Irony Wham Shot Parental Substitute Anyone Can Die Dying Moment of Awesome No Celebrities Were Harmed What You Are in the Dark Deal with the Devil Bloodier and Gorier Disproportionate Retribution Real Life Writes the Plot Retired Badass Slap-Slap-Kiss Heterosexual Life-Partners Evil-Detecting Dog Eye Scream Implacable Man Gorn Even Evil Has Standards Adaptational Villainy Extreme Doormat The Atoner Extremely Short Timespan Chase Scene Punch-Clock Villain Jerk with a Heart of Gold Every Car Is a Pinto Red Right Hand Novelization Disguised in Drag Insistent Terminology MacGuffin Creepy Child Truth in Television Arc Words Suspiciously Specific Denial No-Sell Corrupt Corporate Executive You Killed My Father German Films Not What It Looks Like No Ending An Arm and a Leg Mood Whiplash The Smurfette Principle Good Is Not Nice Unspoken Plan Guarantee Canon Foreigner Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Lampshade Hanging Break the Haughty Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Cassandra Truth Bland-Name Product Mighty Whitey Stealth Hi/Bye Evil Plan Hollywood Law The Ghost Motor Mouth Facial Horror Public Domain Feature Films French Films Brainless Beauty Jerk Jock Final Girl Rule of Three Bond Villain Stupidity An Aesop Reckless Gun Usage Morality Pet Refuge in Audacity Combat Pragmatist My Greatest Failure Wounded Gazelle Gambit Music Stories 20 Minutes into the Future Chekhov's Skill Mooks Say My Name Agony of the Feet Male Gaze Be Careful What You Wish For Abhorrent Admirer Silence Is Golden The Casanova Cowboy Cop Hollywood Darkness The Chick Martial Arts Movie An Axe to Grind Guile Hero Dropped a Bridge on Him The Mole Romantic Comedy Bittersweet Ending Auto Erotica It's All About Me Naïve Newcomer Slasher Movie Easily Forgiven Roaring Rampage of Revenge Big Bad Match Cut As You Know Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Contrived Coincidence Adaptation Distillation Betty and Veronica Damsel in Distress Action Girl Anachronism Stew Rape as Drama Here We Go Again! The Chessmaster Wham Line Death Glare Ass Shove Cain and Abel Dark Reprise Mad Scientist Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Get Out! Shirtless Scene Plot Hole Covers Always Lie Deconstruction timeperiod Japanese Films Villainous Breakdown Hypocrite Evil Brit Oh, Crap! Historical Villain Upgrade Horror Films Country Matters Random Events Plot Yandere Canadian Movies Asshole Victim Science Fiction Films Adaptation Name Change Heel Realization Victoria's Secret Compartment Thriller In Medias Res The Remake Badass Longcoat Superhero Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Television Movie Index Product Placement Put on a Bus Precision F-Strike Those Wacky Nazis Deliberately Monochrome Demoted to Extra Vitriolic Best Buds Brick Joke The End... Or Is It? Actor Allusion Obstructive Bureaucrat Up to Eleven Captain Obvious Leave the Camera Running Drugs Are Bad Silent Movie Rich Bitch Action Prologue Defrosting Ice Queen Abusive Parents Jerkass Has a Point Freeze-Frame Bonus Bait-and-Switch Leitmotif Getting Crap Past the Radar No Antagonist Lighter and Softer Wicked Cultured Russian Films The Smart Guy The Dreaded Leaning on the Fourth Wall Book-Ends Interrupted Suicide Loads and Loads of Characters Shown Their Work Christmas Movies Index Kick the Dog The Musical A.I. Is a Crapshoot Reality Ensues Amoral Attorney Henpecked Husband Evil Laugh Foreshadowing Sanity Slippage Gory Discretion Shot Fainting Mundane Made Awesome Cat Scare Punny Name Loophole Abuse Dramatic Gun Cock Enemy Mine Adult Fear No Good Deed Goes Unpunished The Load Jitter Cam Face–Heel Turn Big Eater Important Haircut Heroic BSoD Protagonist Title The Alcoholic NO INDOOR VOICE Bloody Hilarious Jerkass Not Quite Dead Never Trust a Trailer Fish out of Water Took a Level in Badass Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Homage Insane Troll Logic The Power of Love Not Using the "Z" Word Determinator Token Minority Outrun the Fireball Tagline Made of Iron The Cavalry All Girls Want Bad Boys Idiot Ball Evil Counterpart Everyone Has Standards Ripped from the Headlines I Did What I Had to Do Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Is Serious Business Off with His Head! Horror Comedy Informed Ability More Dakka Not So Above It All Destination Defenestration Bound and Gagged May–December Romance Karmic Death Psycho for Hire Card-Carrying Villain Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Establishing Character Moment Amusing Injuries Serial Killer Shipper on Deck Obfuscating Stupidity Re-Cut Vomit Indiscretion Shot Pretty in Mink My God, What Have I Done? Alas, Poor Villain Historical-Domain Character Slashed Throat Cool Car Setting Update Your Cheating Heart Spanner in the Works Pragmatic Villainy Instant Death Bullet Vomit Discretion Shot Eiffel Tower Effect Artistic License – Law Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Blood Knight Pet the Dog Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Insult Backfire Sassy Black Woman Scare Chord One Steve Limit Drives Like Crazy La Résistance I'm a Humanitarian Death by Irony Man on Fire Bloodless Carnage Neck Snap Black Comedy Broken Aesop Monumental Damage Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Anachronic Order Self-Deprecation Crapsack World Comically Missing the Point Foil Badass in a Nice Suit My Beloved Smother All Men Are Perverts Big Applesauce Hell Is That Noise Adults Are Useless Body Horror Retcon Fatal Family Photo Dramatic Irony Woman in White Meaningful Echo Rule of Funny Closed Circle Bolivian Army Ending Back from the Dead Due to the Dead Cool Old Lady Hero of Another Story Berserk Button No OSHA Compliance Redshirt Army Call-Forward Video Credits The Sociopath Kubrick Stare Villain Ball Drowning My Sorrows Riddle for the Ages Death Seeker Pre-Mortem One-Liner Noodle Incident Armor-Piercing Question Big-Bad Ensemble Faux Affably Evil Show Within a Show Cloudcuckoolander Never Found the Body Better to Die than Be Killed Rousing Speech Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Film Noir Missing Mom Badass Grandpa Death by Adaptation Sexy Discretion Shot Dies Wide Open Failed a Spot Check Spiritual Successor Dressing as the Enemy Distracted by the Sexy Red Shirt Manic Pixie Dream Girl Artistic License – Military Tempting Fate Cold-Blooded Torture Bring My Brown Pants Epic Movie Dirty Cop Ms. Fanservice Anti-Hero Suspiciously Similar Substitute And the Adventure Continues Stalker with a Crush Malevolent Masked Men Attempted Rape Too Dumb to Live Adaptation Dye-Job Disney Death Reasonable Authority Figure Ghost Fiction As Himself As the Good Book Says... Continuity Nod Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Retirony As Long as It Sounds Foreign Adaptation Expansion Shoot the Shaggy Dog "The Reason You Suck" Speech Hong Kong Films What Happened to the Mouse? Adaptational Attractiveness Boom, Headshot! Camp Gay Action Genre Department of Redundancy Department Central Theme Soft Glass Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Artistic License – Geography Australian Movies Downer Ending Those Two Bad Guys Adaptational Badass Evil Is Hammy Evil vs. Evil Credits Gag Foregone Conclusion Love Triangle The Great Depression Only One Name Title Drop Didn't Think This Through Bald of Evil Killed Mid-Sentence Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Darker and Edgier Visual Pun True Companions Bi the Way Groin Attack Psychological Thriller Line-of-Sight Name Cluster F-Bomb All There in the Script Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Half the Man He Used to Be Alliterative Name Properly Paranoid The Hero Dies For the Evulz Sequel Escalation Exactly What It Says on the Tin Captain Ersatz The Vamp Beta Couple There Is No Kill Like Overkill Ironic Echo Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Batman Gambit Beauty Is Never Tarnished Chiaroscuro Overly Long Gag Affectionate Parody Translation Convention Hate Sink Curse Cut Short Skewed Priorities The '90s Evil Is Petty Nothing Is Scarier Deus ex Machina Would Hit a Girl Eyepatch of Power Badass Normal Intrepid Reporter Redemption Equals Death Serious Business Frame-Up Blackmail Exact Words The '70s You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Maybe Ever After Real Life Light Is Not Good Playing Gertrude Beware the Nice Ones Soundtrack Dissonance Romantic False Lead Politically Incorrect Villain Fanservice Extra Time Skip Flashback Woman Scorned Let's Get Dangerous! Award-Bait Song Greater-Scope Villain Deadpan Snarker Car Fu Ambiguous Disorder Major Injury Underreaction Mama Bear Developing Doomed Characters Lock and Load Montage Married to the Job Those Two Guys Handicapped Badass Double-Meaning Title Death of a Child Break the Cutie Spiteful Spit Ungrateful Bastard Spell My Name with an "S" All There in the Manual Artistic License – Biology Advertised Extra War Is Hell Black and Gray Morality Earn Your Happy Ending Honor Before Reason Kick the Son of a Bitch Narrator Darkest Hour Artistic License – History Off-into-the-Distance Ending I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Kill 'em All "Well Done, Son!" Guy Manchild Rule of Symbolism Red Herring Undying Loyalty Annoying Younger Sibling Fan Disservice Dual Wielding Red Eyes, Take Warning Never My Fault Gainax Ending '80s Hair No Name Given Worthy Opponent From Nobody to Nightmare Names to Run Away from Really Fast Karma Houdini Would Hurt a Child Heroes Want Redheads Beard of Evil A Minor Kidroduction The '80s I Need a Freaking Drink Psychopathic Manchild Sealed Evil in a Can Dumb Blonde She Cleans Up Nicely Decoy Protagonist Fire-Forged Friends The Stinger Dirty Coward Stylistic Suck Accidental Murder Race Lift One-Man Army The Voiceless Totally Radical Straight Gay Unusually Uninteresting Sight Author Appeal You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Evil Sounds Deep Genre Savvy The Lancer Grievous Bottley Harm N-Word Privileges Crucified Hero Shot Animated Credits Opening Ascended Extra Sci-Fi Horror Fat Bastard Mercy Kill Shell-Shocked Veteran Faking the Dead Grey and Gray Morality The Bully Badass Bookworm Gone Horribly Right Dark and Troubled Past Anguished Declaration of Love Gilligan Cut Police are Useless Catch-Phrase Our Zombies Are Different Mexican Standoff It's Personal Pay Evil unto Evil In the Back Corpsing The Alleged Car Sequel Hook Eldritch Abomination Fanservice Small Name, Big Ego Mystery and Detective Films Sir Swears-a-Lot Made of Explodium Market-Based Title Logo Joke A Date with Rosie Palms Heroic Sacrifice Ominous Latin Chanting Gratuitous English Pretty Little Headshots Composite Character Police Brutality Disappeared Dad Black Comedy Rape Really Gets Around Authority Equals Asskicking Mind Screw Big Damn Heroes Mr. Fanservice Have a Gay Old Time Dramedy Fantastic Racism The Ace Offscreen Moment of Awesome The Reveal Expy Make It Look Like an Accident Fourth Date Marriage Creative Closing Credits Gender Flip Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Funny Background Event Dogged Nice Guy World of Ham Diabolus ex Machina Moment Killer The Cameo Nice Guy Femme Fatale Stealth Pun Artistic License – Physics Only Sane Man Parental Abandonment Conspicuous CG Adorkable The '50s Stepford Smiler Badass Boast Reality Is Unrealistic What the Hell, Hero? Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Overprotective Dad Happily Married Well-Intentioned Extremist Improbable Weapon User Immune to Bullets All Just a Dream Does This Remind You of Anything? Dutch Angle Dull Surprise Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Only Known by Their Nickname Broken Bird Very Loosely Based on a True Story Funny Foreigner Call-Back Knight Templar Bad "Bad Acting" Vampire Fiction Despair Event Horizon Hoist by His Own Petard Mr. Exposition Bowdlerise Green-Eyed Monster "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Smoking Is Cool Offscreen Teleportation Villain Song BFG Kill It with Fire Recycled IN SPACE! Celebrity Paradox Fun with Acronyms Aside Glance Villain with Good Publicity Tap on the Head Meaningful Background Event