Tropescilloscope: Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality

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