Tropescilloscope: Improvised Weapon

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