Tropescilloscope: Improvised Weapon

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