Tropescilloscope: Improvised Weapon

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Captain Obvious Ship Tease Cool Guns Very Loosely Based on a True Story Adaptation Dye-Job Composite Character All for Nothing Sports Stories Wretched Hive Sir Swears-a-Lot I Have Your Wife Bar Brawl Serial Killer Only Sane Man Insane Troll Logic Horror Films Big Damn Heroes Meaningful Background Event Leaning on the Fourth Wall Thriller Would Hit a Girl It Can Think Early Installment Weirdness All Girls Want Bad Boys Country Matters It Will Never Catch On Deal with the Devil Double-Meaning Title From Bad to Worse Product Placement Red Herring Superhero Award-Bait Song Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Stylistic Suck Amusing Injuries Does This Remind You of Anything? Jerkass Has a Point Implacable Man Death Seeker Twist Ending Dark and Troubled Past Revenge Adaptational Heroism Badass Bookworm No OSHA Compliance Dressing as the Enemy Sequel Escalation All Just a Dream Lampshade Hanging Evil Laugh Truth in Television Unresolved Sexual Tension Gainax Ending You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Fiery Redhead Unusual Euphemism Slap-Slap-Kiss Hair-Trigger Temper Training Montage Smug Snake Alas, Poor Villain Half the Man He Used to Be Retired Badass Catapult Nightmare Fourth Date Marriage Annoying Younger Sibling Time Skip Disappeared Dad Motor Mouth Fat Bastard Based on a True Story The Bully Death by Sex Gender Flip Real Life Car Fu Manchild Intergenerational Friendship Took a Level in Badass Bury Your Gays Stepford Smiler I Did What I Had to Do Danny Peary Cult Movies List Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Heel Realization Call-Forward Damsel in Distress My Greatest Failure War Is Hell Kubrick Stare Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Non-Indicative Name Determinator Martial Arts Movie Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Exactly What It Says on the Tin Creepy Child BFG Corrupt Corporate Executive As Long as It Sounds Foreign Bottomless Magazines Slashed Throat Needs Wiki Magic Love Dirty Cop Darker and Edgier Not Even Bothering with the Accent Hoist by His Own Petard Humiliation Conga Mundane Made Awesome Soundtrack Dissonance Gone Horribly Right Artistic License – History For Want of a Nail Shirtless Scene Music Stories All There in the Script The Alleged Car Stalker with a Crush Not Quite Dead Pimped-Out Dress Eye Scream Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Mystery and Detective Films Beauty Is Never Tarnished Determinator aka: The Determinator Dirty Coward Dissonant Serenity Rule of Three Big-Bad Ensemble Politically Incorrect Villain No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Cruel and Unusual Death Japanese Films True Companions The Un-Reveal A.I. Is a Crapshoot Love at First Sight Red Right Hand May–December Romance Camera Abuse A God Am I Spanner in the Works Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Heel–Face Turn Tempting Fate Darkest Hour Apocalypse How Neck Lift Maybe Ever After As Himself Trailers Always Spoil Tap on the Head Artistic License – Military Sole Survivor Scare Chord The Casanova Insult Backfire Fish out of Water Mugging the Monster The Oner Big Bad Off with His Head! Totally Radical Chekhov's Gunman Fire-Forged Friends Missing Mom Ominous Latin Chanting No Name Given Refuge in Audacity Ghost Fiction Wham Line Reality Has No Subtitles Gratuitous English Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Developing Doomed Characters Dramatic Irony N-Word Privileges Well-Intentioned Extremist Fingore Jerkass World of Ham Suspiciously Similar Substitute Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Manic Pixie Dream Girl Malevolent Masked Men The '50s Hero Antagonist An Aesop Karmic Death Bullying a Dragon Shower Scene Contrived Coincidence Kill 'em All Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Drugs Are Bad Happily Married Unspoken Plan Guarantee Mistaken for Gay Vomit Discretion Shot Does Not Like Shoes Leave the Camera Running Face Death with Dignity Visual Pun Hollywood Law Hope Spot Man on Fire Black Dude Dies First An Arm and a Leg Dual Wielding Card-Carrying Villain Whole Plot Reference Bland-Name Product Diabolus ex Machina Shown Their Work Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Captain Ersatz Adult Fear Noodle Incident Pretty Little Headshots Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Badass Grandpa Breaking the Fourth Wall Rousing Speech Punch-Clock Villain Vacation Films Improvised Weapon Catch-Phrase Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Only in It for the Money Never My Fault What Happened to the Mouse? 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Male Frontal Nudity Anti-Hero La Résistance Freeze-Frame Bonus Femme Fatale Arranged Marriage Nice Guy Our Zombies Are Different Batman Gambit Moment Killer Bound and Gagged Rule of Symbolism Same Language Dub Public Domain Feature Films The Atoner Take a Third Option Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Take That! Chekhov's Gun The Smart Guy Pre-Mortem One-Liner "The Reason You Suck" Speech The Voiceless Put on a Bus Pragmatic Villainy Science Fiction Films Eureka Moment Canadian Movies Bitch in Sheep's Clothing The Stoic Sexy Discretion Shot Air-Vent Passageway How We Got Here You Have Outlived Your Usefulness The Chick Deliberate Values Dissonance Evil Is Petty Heroes Want Redheads The Reveal Biopic Green-Eyed Monster Pragmatic Adaptation Say My Name The Dreaded Fatal Flaw Eagleland Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Authority Equals Asskicking Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Market-Based Title Woman Scorned Destination Defenestration Villain with Good Publicity Plot Hole Big Brother Instinct Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Bait-and-Switch Here We Go Again! I'm a Humanitarian Cowboy Cop In the Back Madness Mantra Author Avatar Dropped a Bridge on Him Psycho for Hire Adaptational Badass Crazy Jealous Guy Yandere Domestic Abuse Genre Shift Rewatch Bonus Guns Akimbo Villainous Breakdown Bond Villain Stupidity "Well Done, Son!" Guy Homage The Cameo Arc Words And Starring No Celebrities Were Harmed Off-into-the-Distance Ending Random Events Plot Serious Business You Killed My Father Amoral Attorney Abusive Parents Adaptation Distillation Lock and Load Montage Downer Ending Dogged Nice Guy Deconstruction Slasher Smile Scary Black Man Immune to Bullets Costume Porn Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Race Against the Clock Dies Wide Open Hypocrite Plucky Comic Relief Sci-Fi Horror As You Know Despair Event Horizon Imagine Spot Everyone Has Standards Your Head A-Splode Canon Foreigner Papa Wolf Wham Shot Did Not Get the Girl For the Evulz Eyepatch of Power Dark Is Not Evil Death Glare Laser-Guided Karma What You Are in the Dark Freudian Excuse Translation Convention Credits Gag Leitmotif Anyone Can Die The Big Guy Drowning My Sorrows All There in the Manual Shipper on Deck Framing Device Foreshadowing Small Name, Big Ego Ambiguous Ending Never Trust a Trailer Dirty Old Man Friend to All Children In Name Only Jerk Jock Mighty Whitey Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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For! Emphasis! Taking the Bullet Bald of Evil Berserk Button Police Brutality Offscreen Teleportation Manipulative Bastard Big Applesauce Bond One-Liner A Father to His Men Every Car Is a Pinto Covers Always Lie Foil Cat Scare Fanservice Eldritch Abomination Ascended Extra Eiffel Tower Effect Drill Sergeant Nasty Would Hurt a Child Hate Sink Only a Flesh Wound Chewing the Scenery Failed a Spot Check Agony of the Feet Red Shirt Spared by the Adaptation Storming the Castle Bittersweet Ending Made of Iron The Bad Guy Wins Suspiciously Specific Denial Fate Worse than Death Skewed Priorities Blatant Lies Break the Haughty Insistent Terminology Camp Gay Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Hypocritical Humor Deadpan Snarker Break the Cutie Knight Templar Pet the Dog Fanservice Extra Obviously Evil Didn't Think This Through Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer One-Man Army Brutal Honesty Meaningful Echo Establishing Character Moment She Cleans Up Nicely Rape as Drama Really Gets Around It's All About Me Hero of Another Story Brick Joke Daylight Horror The Dog Bites Back Continuity Nod Bare Your Midriff Up to Eleven The X of Y Aside Glance The Musical Not What It Looks Like Dramatic Gun Cock Shout-Out The Mafia Dramedy My Beloved Smother Undying Loyalty Calling the Old Man Out Adorkable Not So Above It All Defrosting Ice Queen Cassandra Truth Toplessness from the Back Reality Ensues Greater-Scope Villain Armor-Piercing Question Blood Knight Screw the Rules, I Have Money! I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Meet Cute Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Deus ex Machina You Have Failed Me The Great Depression Historical In-Joke Left the Background Music On Grievous Bottley Harm Only Known by Their Nickname Disguised in Drag Central Theme Tagline The '70s The Load Brainless Beauty Department of Redundancy Department Token Minority Better to Die than Be Killed Sanity Slippage Action Prologue Evil Plan Throwing Your Sword Always Works Rule of Cool Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Crucified Hero Shot Extremely Short Timespan Rule of Funny Almost Kiss Vomit Indiscretion Shot Light Is Not Good B-Movie Daddy's Girl Guile Hero Alpha Bitch Parental Incest Fun with Acronyms Betty and Veronica Villain Opening Scene Vitriolic Best Buds Punny Name '80s Hair Book-Ends Jerk with a Heart of Gold Spiteful Spit Rated M for Manly What the Hell, Hero? Chase Scene Not Using the "Z" Word Badass Normal Defiant to the End Military and Warfare Films Reckless Gun Usage Hooker with a Heart of Gold The Faceless Ripped from the Headlines Neck Snap Even Evil Has Standards Cat Fight Shut Up, Hannibal! Psychological Thriller Kill It with Fire Big Bad Duumvirate Race Lift Made of Explodium Bloodier and Gorier Evil Sounds Deep Fainting Peek-a-Boo Corpse Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Bilingual Bonus French Films Handicapped Badass Police are Useless Parental Neglect Once More, with Clarity! Accidental Misnaming Bad "Bad Acting" Author Appeal The End... Or Is It? Famous Last Words Romantic Comedy Super Strength The Ace Belligerent Sexual Tension Cool Old Lady Meaningful Name Epic Movie Woman in White Not So Different One Steve Limit Empathic Environment Bloodless Carnage Genre Savvy A Date with Rosie Palms Offscreen Moment of Awesome Christmas Movies Index Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Demonic Possession Psychopathic Manchild Obfuscating Stupidity Grey and Gray Morality The Quiet One Sassy Black Woman Demoted to Extra Mythology Gag Heroic BSoD Action Girl There Is No Kill Like Overkill And the Adventure Continues Bloody Hilarious Black Best Friend In Medias Res Cluster F-Bomb Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Bi the Way Exact Words Antagonist Title Five-Man Band 20 Minutes into the Future Faux Affably Evil Get Out! Age Lift Kick the Son of a Bitch No-Sell The Mole