Tropescilloscope: Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun

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Is a Crapshoot Decoy Protagonist Rule of Symbolism Fun with Acronyms As You Know Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Vomit Discretion Shot For the Evulz After the End You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Action Genre Reasonable Authority Figure Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Sports Stories Obviously Evil Laughing Mad Genre Savvy Psychopathic Manchild Earn Your Happy Ending Redemption Equals Death Villain Ball Australian Movies Here We Go Again! Honor Before Reason Catapult Nightmare No OSHA Compliance Mystery and Detective Films Downer Ending Meaningful Background Event Skewed Priorities The Sociopath Broken Pedestal A God Am I Distracted by the Sexy Expository Hairstyle Change Moment Killer Handicapped Badass Improvised Weapon Adaptation Expansion Armor-Piercing Question Not Using the "Z" Word Fanservice Hypocrite Loophole Abuse Mercy Kill Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Dropped a Bridge on Him Shower Scene Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Nice Hat He Knows Too Much Adaptation Name Change Visual Pun Daddy's Girl Gratuitous English Fainting Police are Useless Extreme Doormat The Faceless Bring My Brown Pants Genre Shift Tranquil Fury Real Life Writes the Plot Adults Are Useless Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Madness Mantra Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Dwindling Party folderlabel Only a Flesh Wound Henpecked Husband The Remake Happily Married Improbable Aiming Skills Romantic False Lead Mama Bear Parental Substitute Composite Character Same Language Dub '80s Hair Flashback Reality Has No Subtitles Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Double Entendre Have a Gay Old Time Dark Reprise Suspiciously Similar Substitute Arranged Marriage Large Ham Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Chekhov's Gunman Hidden Depths Affably Evil Vomit Indiscretion Shot Silent Movie Affectionate Parody From Nobody to Nightmare Diabolus ex Machina Men Are the Expendable Gender Auto Erotica Bi the Way She Cleans Up Nicely Martial Arts Movie Freudian Excuse Award-Bait Song Animal Motifs Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Cool Car Romantic Comedy Cluster F-Bomb Fatal Flaw Blackmail Guile Hero True Companions Obfuscating Stupidity Pretty Little Headshots Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Eye Scream Never Trust a Trailer Pre-Mortem One-Liner Once More, with Clarity! Scenery Porn Death by Irony Cruel and Unusual Death Eiffel Tower Effect Imagine Spot Foil I Did What I Had to Do Sealed Evil in a Can Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Dull Surprise Fake Shemp Disguised in Drag La Résistance Cool Guns Suddenly SHOUTING! This Is Gonna Suck Film Noir Stealth Pun Playing Gertrude Cool Old Guy Fantastic Racism Friend to All Children Unusual Euphemism Death by Adaptation Meet Cute Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Bond Villain Stupidity Even Evil Has Loved Ones Bloodier and Gorier British Films Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie A Father to His Men Rasputinian Death Blood from the Mouth Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Captain Ersatz Anachronic Order Broken Aesop Closed Circle Implacable Man Fatal Family Photo Shut Up, Hannibal! Neck Snap Maybe Ever After Gilligan Cut I Need a Freaking Drink Big Damn Heroes Hoist by His Own Petard Ungrateful Bastard Shirtless Scene Crazy-Prepared Crapsack World Only Sane Man The Stoner Small Name, Big Ego Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Deconstruction Immune to Bullets Big "NO!" Fantasy Films Japanese Films Retirony Guns Akimbo Abusive Parents It's All About Me Easily Forgiven Bad "Bad Acting" Dramatic Gun Cock Batman Gambit Police Brutality Punch-Clock Villain Evil Is Hammy Cool Shades Insane Troll Logic Pimped-Out Dress Dogged Nice Guy Video Credits The Dreaded Toplessness from the Back Chiaroscuro Unresolved Sexual Tension Damsel in Distress Intergenerational Friendship Bottomless Magazines Suspiciously Specific Denial Big Bad Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Stealth Hi/Bye Bowdlerise Put on a Bus Time Skip Bait-and-Switch Mad Scientist Slap-Slap-Kiss Yandere Grey and Gray Morality Unusually Uninteresting Sight Naïve Newcomer Humiliation Conga Scare Chord Adaptation Distillation Big Applesauce Dirty Old Man Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Product Placement Air-Vent Passageway Mind Screw Anyone Can Die Almost Kiss "Well Done, Son!" Guy Covers Always Lie Mythology Gag Rich Bitch Lighter and Softer Morality Pet Punctuated! For! Emphasis! All Girls Want Bad Boys Camp Gay Bunny-Ears Lawyer Insult Backfire Face Death with Dignity Sanity Slippage An Aesop Gorn The Chick The End... Or Is It? Match Cut Heroic BSoD Sacrificial Lion Sequel Hook In Medias Res Took a Level in Jerkass Gainax Ending Truth in Television The Lost Lenore Nothing Is Scarier Adorkable Asshole Victim Bald of Evil Green-Eyed Monster Contrived Coincidence In Name Only Works Set in World War II Dual Wielding O.O.C. Is Serious Business Faking the Dead Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Broken Bird Failed a Spot Check He Who Fights Monsters Roaring Rampage of Revenge Combat Pragmatist Drugs Are Bad Deliberate Values Dissonance Not What It Looks Like Say My Name Bare Your Midriff Those Two Bad Guys Arch-Enemy Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Non-Indicative Name Mighty Whitey Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Evil Brit Amusing Injuries Outrun the Fireball Real Life And I Must Scream Agony of the Feet Famous Last Words Red Right Hand Freeze-Frame Bonus The Load Brick Joke Artistic License – Biology Let's Get Dangerous! The Dragon Knight Templar My God, What Have I Done? Boom, Headshot! Light Is Not Good Those Wacky Nazis Overprotective Dad German Films Five-Man Band Documentary Action Prologue Ironic Echo Heel–Face Turn Greater-Scope Villain Sinister Minister Storming the Castle Artistic License – Geography Properly Paranoid Betty and Veronica Stepford Smiler Ship Tease Chewing the Scenery Word of God The Musical Running Gag Dressing as the Enemy Arc Words Pretty in Mink Cain and Abel Left the Background Music On Reckless Gun Usage Celebrity Paradox Important Haircut Be Careful What You Wish For Sci-Fi Horror Lampshade Hanging Badass Longcoat Fourth Date Marriage Danny Peary Cult Movies List And Starring Rewatch Bonus Disney Death Mexican Standoff Early Installment Weirdness Big Fancy House Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Butt-Monkey Pragmatic Adaptation Evil Counterpart Scary Black Man Epic Fail The Casanova Expy Beta Couple Wham Shot Improbable Weapon User Market-Based Title Trailers Always Spoil The Lancer Very Loosely Based on a True Story Action Survivor Adaptational Badass Funny Foreigner Anachronism Stew Bavarian Fire Drill Get Out! 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Driven to Suicide How We Got Here Slasher Smile Coming-of-Age Story What the Hell, Hero? Tagline Berserk Button The Brute Historical-Domain Character Irony Love Triangle Disappeared Dad Shipper on Deck Even Evil Has Standards Manipulative Bastard Despair Event Horizon Poor Communication Kills Smug Snake Nice Guy Body Horror Protagonist Title Killed Mid-Sentence You Killed My Father Would Hit a Girl Film Noir Index Retcon In the Back Superhero The Quiet One Depraved Bisexual Tap on the Head Meaningful Echo Mistaken for Gay Random Events Plot Animal Title Index Adaptational Heroism The Mole Last-Name Basis Peek-a-Boo Corpse A Minor Kidroduction Aluminum Christmas Trees Knife Nut War Is Hell Pragmatic Villainy Smoking Is Cool Hero Antagonist Brutal Honesty Rape as Drama Dramatic Irony Shown Their Work Children Are Innocent Artistic License – History Belligerent Sexual Tension Never My Fault Oh, Crap! Serial Killer You Have Failed Me Villain with Good Publicity Four-Temperament Ensemble Badass Normal French Films Chekhov's Gun Deal with the Devil Index of Film Westerns Hate Sink Redshirt Army Horror Comedy My Beloved Smother Creepy Child Married to the Job Action Girl Hero of Another Story Red Oni, Blue Oni Genre Throwback 20 Minutes into the Future Frame-Up Revenge Line-of-Sight Name Babies Ever After Artistic License – Gun Safety Offscreen Teleportation The Stinger Eldritch Abomination Character Development Crucified Hero Shot Mooks Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Neck Lift Costume Porn Corrupt Corporate Executive Rousing Speech The Place The Alcoholic Black Comedy I'm a Humanitarian Silence Is Golden Taking You with Me Needs Wiki Magic Love Framing Device From Bad to Worse Overly Long Gag Riddle for the Ages Karma Houdini Self-Deprecation Television Movie Index Lock and Load Montage Hong Kong Films Paper-Thin Disguise Bound and Gagged Wretched Hive Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Major Injury Underreaction Taking the Bullet Spanner in the Works Offscreen Moment of Awesome The Bad Guy Wins Book-Ends Our Zombies Are Different Heterosexual Life-Partners Bullying a Dragon Funny Background Event There Is No Kill Like Overkill Off-into-the-Distance Ending Continuity Nod Took a Level in Badass Bury Your Gays Obstructive Bureaucrat Animated Credits Opening Bland-Name Product Break the Haughty Serious Business Evil Is Petty Evil Plan Horror Films It Will Never Catch On Historical Hero Upgrade An Axe to Grind Fan Disservice Mr. Fanservice Evil Laugh Papa Wolf Rule of Cool Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality As the Good Book Says... Femme Fatale Homage Double-Meaning Title Parental Neglect Determinator aka: The Determinator Heel Realization Early-Bird Cameo Cool Old Lady Wounded Gazelle Gambit Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Dying Moment of Awesome Advertised Extra Our Vampires Are Different Groin Attack Authority Equals Asskicking The Un-Reveal Narrator No Celebrities Were Harmed Dumb Blonde Cat Scare Villain Protagonist Jerkass Stock Footage Sadistic Choice Big-Bad Ensemble Jump Scare Adaptational Attractiveness Really Gets Around Actually Pretty Funny The '50s Soundtrack Dissonance Spiteful Spit The Stoic The '80s Cowboy Cop Up to Eleven All Just a Dream Ghost Fiction Brother–Sister Incest Informed Ability Evil Sounds Deep Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Never Found the Body Eagleland Fanservice Extra Parental Incest Setting Update Destination Defenestration Face–Heel Turn Not So Stoic Manic Pixie Dream Girl Take That! Creative Closing Credits The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Gone Horribly Right And the Adventure Continues Public Domain Feature Films Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Villain Song The Starscream Laser-Guided Karma "Shaggy Dog" Story Ax-Crazy One-Word Title The Ace Blatant Lies Shout-Out The Dog Bites Back Male Frontal Nudity Pet the Dog Comically Missing the Point Slasher Movie Demoted to Extra Shoot the Shaggy Dog Apocalypse How Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Didn't Think This Through Italian Films The Hero Dies The Reveal Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Deadpan Snarker Rule of Three Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Foreshadowing "The Reason You Suck" Speech Novelization All Men Are Perverts Names to Run Away from Really Fast Amoral Attorney Mugging the Monster Badass Grandpa Stuff Blowing Up Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Death by Sex Flipping the Bird Manly Tears Unreliable Narrator As Himself Mr. Exposition Fire-Forged Friends The Alleged Car Camera Abuse Cassandra Truth Anti-Villain The Mafia Black Comedy Rape Recycled IN SPACE! No Antagonist Would Hurt a Child "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Psycho for Hire Deus ex Machina Break the Cutie Leave the Camera Running Ripped from the Headlines Call-Forward Not Quite Dead You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Biopic Ascended Extra Super Strength Extremely Short Timespan Dark Action Girl More Dakka World of Ham Take a Third Option Death of a Child Credits Gag Canadian Movies Faux Affably Evil Refuge in Audacity Logo Joke Based on a True Story I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Tempting Fate The Power of Love Death Seeker Insistent Terminology Leaning on the Fourth Wall For Want of a Nail Awesome, but Impractical Christmas Movies Index The X of Y Cat Fight Not Even Bothering with the Accent Getting Crap Past the Radar Artistic License – Military May–December Romance Naked People Are Funny Gory Discretion Shot Precision F-Strike Made of Explodium I Have Your Wife Black and Gray Morality Heroic Sacrifice Older Than They Look timeperiod Eureka Moment Soft Glass My Greatest Failure Half the Man He Used to Be Victoria's Secret Compartment Star-Crossed Lovers Empathic Environment Exactly What It Says on the Tin Your Cheating Heart Punny Name Retired Badass Conspicuous CG Psychological Thriller Eyepatch of Power No Name Given Foregone Conclusion Ass Shove Military and Warfare Films Token Minority Intrepid Reporter Big Brother Instinct Show Within a Show NO INDOOR VOICE Drill Sergeant Nasty The Film of the Book Better to Die than Be Killed Sassy Black Woman Did Not Get the Girl Disney Villain Death Spared by the Adaptation Canon Foreigner Hypocritical Humor