Tropescilloscope: Improvised Weapon

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They Really Do Love Each Other Cloudcuckoolander Implacable Man Logo Joke Off with His Head! Worthy Opponent Once More, with Clarity! 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Curse Cut Short Silence Is Golden Sinister Minister Naked People Are Funny Take That! Heroic BSoD Ripped from the Headlines Disney Villain Death Dark Is Not Evil Shown Their Work Hidden Depths Ambiguous Ending An Arm and a Leg Lock and Load Montage Adaptational Villainy Big Brother Instinct The Power of Love From Bad to Worse Call-Forward The Film of the Book Apocalypse How Left the Background Music On Took a Level in Jerkass The '60s For the Evulz Up to Eleven Affectionate Parody Those Wacky Nazis Revenge Drives Like Crazy Central Theme No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Deus ex Machina After the End Kill It with Fire Punch-Clock Villain How We Got Here Dramatic Irony Villain Song Let's Get Dangerous! Playing Gertrude Recycled IN SPACE! Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Attempted Rape Action Girl Male Frontal Nudity Badass Longcoat Obviously Evil Ax-Crazy The Mole Sci-Fi Horror Diabolus ex Machina Canon Foreigner Large Ham Cool Shades Vomit Indiscretion Shot Hope Spot Pyrrhic Victory Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Determinator Alpha Bitch Big Bad Duumvirate Hollywood Darkness Reckless Gun Usage Line-of-Sight Name Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Actor Allusion Rule of Funny Oh, Crap! Fourth Date Marriage I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Improbable Aiming Skills Adaptation Expansion Credits Gag Intrepid Reporter Stock Footage Papa Wolf Big Damn Heroes Hero of Another Story All Girls Want Bad Boys Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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Half the Man He Used to Be Horror Films Get Out! Stylistic Suck Those Two Guys Parental Substitute The Starscream Offscreen Moment of Awesome Married to the Job Red Oni, Blue Oni Framing Device Sexy Discretion Shot Fun with Acronyms Alliterative Name The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Moment Killer Eyepatch of Power Hoist by His Own Petard Back from the Dead Babies Ever After Deconstruction Eldritch Abomination Gold Digger The Alleged Car Hypocrite Word of God Sanity Slippage Put on a Bus Ghost Fiction Cool Car Tempting Fate Riddle for the Ages Death by Irony Bland-Name Product Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Break the Haughty It Will Never Catch On Camp Gay Woman in White Red Eyes, Take Warning Broken Bird Unreliable Narrator Department of Redundancy Department Parental Incest Re-Cut Skewed Priorities Cain and Abel Country Matters Heel–Face Turn The Great Depression Humiliation Conga Music Stories The Lancer Retcon Wounded Gazelle Gambit Age Lift Driven to Suicide Your Cheating Heart Dirty Cop Laser-Guided Karma The Smurfette Principle Creative Closing Credits Casting Gag Soundtrack Dissonance Bad Boss Bunny-Ears Lawyer "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue BFG Jump Scare Improbable Weapon User Dramatic Gun Cock Made of Explodium Genre Shift MacGuffin Cowboy Cop Reasonable Authority Figure Knife Nut Slashed Throat Red Herring Biopic Creator Cameo Kids Are Cruel The Load Unresolved Sexual Tension Unwitting Instigator of Doom Homage Ambiguously Gay Real Life Writes the Plot Broken Aesop Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor A.I. Is a Crapshoot Conspicuous CG Determinator aka: The Determinator Awesome, but Impractical Big Applesauce Arranged Marriage For Want of a Nail Death Seeker You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Captain Obvious Decoy Protagonist Ragtag Bunch of Misfits What Happened to the Mouse? Scenery Gorn Gory Discretion Shot Adaptational Heroism Adaptational Badass The Big Guy Never Found the Body Nice Hat Super Strength Ironic Echo Our Vampires Are Different Rewatch Bonus Trailers Always Spoil Random Events Plot Intergenerational Friendship Mighty Whitey Funny Foreigner Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Storming the Castle Disproportionate Retribution Slasher Smile You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Show Within a Show Danny Peary Cult Movies List Epic Fail Rule of Three Kubrick Stare O.O.C. Is Serious Business Off-into-the-Distance Ending Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Parental Abandonment Evil Sounds Deep As You Know Cruel and Unusual Death Sequel Escalation Narrator '80s Hair As Long as It Sounds Foreign Monumental Damage Ship Tease Woman Scorned Improvised Weapon Arc Words Dwindling Party Cool Old Lady Final Girl Took a Level in Badass Death Glare Happily Married Dark Reprise No Celebrities Were Harmed Blonde, Brunette, Redhead The Sociopath Belligerent Sexual Tension