Tropescilloscope: Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy

Mooks are lousy shots when trying to hit the heroes. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Is Serious Business Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Slashed Throat Film Series Pragmatic Adaptation Leitmotif Retcon Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas You Have Failed Me Names to Run Away from Really Fast Biopic "Shaggy Dog" Story The Bad Guy Wins Man on Fire Jerk with a Heart of Gold Camp Gay Mighty Whitey Jerkass Has a Point Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Dark Action Girl Driven to Suicide Adaptation Distillation Darker and Edgier The '70s Trailers Always Spoil Love Triangle Vacation Films Gold Digger Major Injury Underreaction Sacrificial Lion Time Skip Reality Has No Subtitles Stealth Hi/Bye I Did What I Had to Do The Casanova Big Applesauce Loads and Loads of Characters Fanservice Extra MacGuffin Genre Savvy Bullying a Dragon Obstructive Bureaucrat Police Brutality An Axe to Grind Creative Closing Credits Happily Married Idiot Ball The Lancer Berserk Button The Mole Big Eater Sequel Hook Henpecked Husband Say My Name Lampshade Hanging Mama Bear Evil Plan Noodle Incident Deliberate Values Dissonance Villain Opening Scene Romantic Comedy The Reveal Kick the Dog Creepy Child One-Man Army Well-Intentioned Extremist Rule of Cool All There in the Script Final Girl Recycled IN SPACE! 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Is a Crapshoot Disguised in Drag Artistic License – Physics Rich Bitch Award-Bait Song