Tropescilloscope: Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun

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Gainax Ending Plucky Comic Relief Due to the Dead Unusually Uninteresting Sight Kick the Dog Very Loosely Based on a True Story Boom, Headshot! Japanese Films Casting Gag Mercy Kill Soft Glass And I Must Scream Groin Attack Eldritch Abomination Improvised Weapon Parental Neglect She's Got Legs Every Car Is a Pinto Even Evil Has Standards Cruel and Unusual Death Sci-Fi Horror Faking the Dead Fire-Forged Friends Evil Cannot Comprehend Good The Sociopath Re-Cut The '50s Sinister Minister Man on Fire Evil Sounds Deep Car Fu Badass Normal Continuity Nod Sole Survivor The '90s Knight Templar Bad Boss Exactly What It Says on the Tin Break the Cutie Ghost Fiction Anti-Hero Funny Foreigner Deliberate Values Dissonance Agony of the Feet Fan Disservice Martial Arts Movie Pyrrhic Victory Bottomless Magazines Lock and Load Montage Fingore Scare Chord Once More, with Clarity! "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Overly Long Gag Pay Evil unto Evil Air-Vent Passageway Not So Stoic Romantic False Lead Slashed Throat Cold-Blooded Torture Parental Substitute Novelization Broken Pedestal Eiffel Tower Effect Antagonist Title The Oner Plot Hole It Can Think Humans Are Bastards Corpsing Kill 'em All Loads and Loads of Characters Gratuitous English Establishing Character Moment Drowning My Sorrows Central Theme Babies Ever After Sealed Evil in a Can Heroes Want Redheads Offscreen Moment of Awesome Tranquil Fury Military and Warfare Films Dirty Old Man Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Running Gag Evil Laugh Slasher Smile Break the Haughty Blood Knight Rule of Three Beware the Nice Ones timeperiod Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Worthy Opponent Frame-Up Sequel Hook Interrupted Suicide Line-of-Sight Name The Lost Lenore Took a Level in Jerkass Film Noir Implacable Man Determinator aka: The Determinator Advertised Extra Artistic License – History Manic Pixie Dream Girl Beta Couple Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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Is a Crapshoot Chase Scene Covers Always Lie Setting Update The Bad Guy Wins Music Stories Asshole Victim Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Red Herring Badass in a Nice Suit Sequel Escalation Manipulative Bastard Bunny-Ears Lawyer Fanservice What You Are in the Dark Room Full of Crazy Obfuscating Stupidity Disguised in Drag Psychological Thriller Evil Brit The Brute Rule of Cool Spell My Name with an "S" All There in the Script Nice Guy Composite Character Have a Gay Old Time Canon Foreigner Mooks Death of a Child Take That! Pretty in Mink Failed a Spot Check Meaningful Background Event Black Dude Dies First Daylight Horror Stealth Pun Storming the Castle Character Development Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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