Tropescilloscope: Insult Backfire

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Your Head A-Splode The '90s Redemption Equals Death Decoy Protagonist Disney Villain Death Henpecked Husband In Name Only Actually Pretty Funny Rousing Speech Nice Hat Didn't Think This Through The Chick You Have Failed Me Outrun the Fireball Film Noir Index Arch-Enemy Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Kick the Dog Pimped-Out Dress The Casanova Anti-Hero Hero Antagonist '80s Hair Small Name, Big Ego Cool Guns Pay Evil unto Evil Historical-Domain Character Action Girl The Quiet One Papa Wolf Gender Flip The Hero Dies Danny Peary Cult Movies List Annoying Younger Sibling Sealed Evil in a Can Disney Death You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! The '50s Darker and Edgier Mama Bear Fun with Acronyms Mundane Made Awesome Badass Bookworm Rule of Cool All Girls Want Bad Boys Beware the Nice Ones Eyepatch of Power My Beloved Smother Enemy Mine Ax-Crazy Our Vampires Are Different Karmic Death Shown Their Work Stuff Blowing Up Getting Crap Past the Radar Conspicuous CG Artistic License – Gun Safety Immune to Bullets Blatant Lies Not So Stoic Bolivian Army Ending Evil Is Petty Video Credits Accidental Misnaming Fire-Forged Friends Match Cut No Antagonist Eiffel Tower Effect Market-Based Title The Brute Better to Die than Be Killed Victoria's Secret Compartment As You Know Demonic Possession Stealth Pun All Just a Dream Action Prologue Heroes Want Redheads Adaptation Name Change Chase Scene For the Evulz Artistic License – Law Love Triangle Author Avatar Drugs Are Bad Monumental Damage The Musical The Reveal Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Cruel and Unusual Death Break the Haughty Intergenerational Friendship Loads and Loads of Characters Chekhov's Gunman And Starring Documentary Film Series Plot Hole Hell Is That Noise Bond Villain Stupidity Those Two Guys The Cameo Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Death of a Child Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Real Life Writes the Plot 20 Minutes into the Future The Faceless NO INDOOR VOICE Evil Is Hammy Historical Hero Upgrade Soft Glass Plucky Comic Relief Homage Aluminum Christmas Trees Well-Intentioned Extremist Lampshade Hanging The End... Or Is It? 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War Is Hell Obviously Evil Depraved Bisexual Alas, Poor Villain Genre Shift Naked People Are Funny She Cleans Up Nicely Storming the Castle Artistic License – Physics Double-Meaning Title Disappeared Dad Word of God Armor-Piercing Question timeperiod In the Back Almost Kiss Love at First Sight Tagline The Voiceless Age Lift Zombie Stories Even Evil Has Loved Ones Early Installment Weirdness The Lancer Defiant to the End Green-Eyed Monster Military and Warfare Films Double Entendre Bunny-Ears Lawyer Our Zombies Are Different Not Quite Dead Catapult Nightmare Those Wacky Nazis Dirty Old Man Dull Surprise Scenery Gorn Jerk with a Heart of Gold Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Is a Crapshoot Abhorrent Admirer I'm a Humanitarian Fanservice Smug Snake Pretty Little Headshots Guile Hero Totally Radical Bring My Brown Pants Shoot the Shaggy Dog Lock and Load Montage Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Extremely Short Timespan Wounded Gazelle Gambit Mr. Fanservice Setting Update Mercy Kill Mighty Whitey Bald of Evil Dogged Nice Guy Stepford Smiler Silent Movie Drill Sergeant Nasty Retirony Took a Level in Badass Suddenly SHOUTING! "Awesome McCool" Name Meaningful Echo Comically Missing the Point Sequel Hook Pyrrhic Victory Not So Different Contrived Coincidence Manly Tears Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Award-Bait Song Imagine Spot Awesome, but Impractical Scenery Porn Playing Gertrude Ambiguous Ending Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Scary Black Man Logo Joke Coming-of-Age Story Artistic License – Geography Unspoken Plan Guarantee One-Word Title Naïve Newcomer Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Wretched Hive Together in Death No OSHA Compliance Fate Worse than Death Dies Wide Open From Nobody to Nightmare Chiaroscuro