Tropescilloscope: Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality

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Scary Black Man The Dragon Adaptational Heroism Green-Eyed Monster Malevolent Masked Men Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Hair-Trigger Temper Domestic Abuse Screw the Rules, I Have Money! The Chick Neck Snap Taking You with Me Immune to Bullets Adaptational Badass Mad Scientist Action Genre British Films Dual Wielding Artistic License – Geography Loads and Loads of Characters Russian Films Film Series French Films Scenery Gorn Downer Ending In Name Only Hoist by His Own Petard Made of Iron Punny Name Everyone Has Standards Bad Boss Took a Level in Jerkass Moment Killer Bare Your Midriff Your Cheating Heart Imagine Spot A Father to His Men Toplessness from the Back Dwindling Party Bunny-Ears Lawyer Pet the Dog Grievous Bottley Harm Villain with Good Publicity Jerkass Wicked Cultured Once More, with Clarity! 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Maybe Ever After No Name Given Hooker with a Heart of Gold Shown Their Work Logo Joke Non-Indicative Name Mystery and Detective Films Knight Templar Five-Man Band Slashed Throat Suddenly SHOUTING! Mercy Kill Stock Footage Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Expository Hairstyle Change Anachronic Order Race Against the Clock Dramatic Gun Cock Black Dude Dies First You Killed My Father Deal with the Devil Did Not Get the Girl Word of God Pay Evil unto Evil Authority Equals Asskicking Last-Name Basis Men Are the Expendable Gender The Lancer Australian Movies Improvised Weapon Kids Are Cruel Peek-a-Boo Corpse Artistic License – Military Blackmail Gory Discretion Shot Male Frontal Nudity The Film of the Book Call-Forward Determinator aka: The Determinator Off with His Head! Kill It with Fire A.I. Is a Crapshoot Evil Counterpart The Brute Chewing the Scenery Idiot Ball Arc Words Setting Update The Reveal Evil Laugh Sequel Escalation Black and Gray Morality Cool Car Artistic License – History Offscreen Moment of Awesome Married to the Job MacGuffin All Men Are Perverts Dumb Blonde The Place Truth in Television The Faceless Crucified Hero Shot I Have Your Wife Chekhov's Skill Rule of Cool Dark Is Not Evil Translation Convention Riddle for the Ages Throwing Your Sword Always Works The Hero Only Sane Man Worthy Opponent Tranquil Fury Bound and Gagged Fun with Acronyms Anti-Hero Major Injury Underreaction Overly Long Gag Slasher Movie Face Death with Dignity N-Word Privileges Funny Background Event Large Ham Our Vampires Are Different Italian Films Film Noir Historical In-Joke Deconstruction Wrong Genre Savvy Those Wacky Nazis Sinister Minister Manic Pixie Dream Girl Gender Flip No Ending Amusing Injuries Not So Stoic Lock and Load Montage Jitter Cam Stalker with a Crush Action Girl Body Horror Brutal Honesty Storming the Castle Obfuscating Stupidity Does Not Like Shoes Cloudcuckoolander Red Shirt Evil Is Hammy Bland-Name Product Chiaroscuro Freeze-Frame Bonus Would Hit a Girl Alas, Poor Villain The Mole Beauty Is Never Tarnished Token Minority Narrator Dogged Nice Guy One-Word Title My God, What Have I Done? 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