Tropescilloscope: Insult Backfire

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