Tropescilloscope: In the Back

Getting stabbed or shot from behind. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Fourth Date Marriage Cool Guns Fainting How We Got Here Pragmatic Adaptation Love at First Sight Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Cat Fight The Ace Retcon Drowning My Sorrows Not What It Looks Like Alpha Bitch Dramatic Gun Cock Unreliable Narrator Call-Back The Alcoholic Freudian Excuse Wounded Gazelle Gambit Casting Gag Leaning on the Fourth Wall Dark Reprise All for Nothing Faking the Dead Card-Carrying Villain As Long as It Sounds Foreign Pragmatic Villainy A Father to His Men Index of Film Westerns Failed a Spot Check Left the Background Music On Men Are the Expendable Gender Sealed Evil in a Can Cool Car Stuff Blowing Up Five-Man Band The Sociopath Big Bad Mama Bear Developing Doomed Characters The End... Or Is It? Kill 'em All Motor Mouth Narrator All There in the Manual Mistaken for Gay The Un-Reveal Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Hooker with a Heart of Gold War Is Hell The Dreaded Curb-Stomp Battle The Ditz The Smurfette Principle Amoral Attorney Vomit Discretion Shot Big Damn Heroes For Want of a Nail Slasher Movie The Quiet One The Ghost You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Does Not Like Shoes No Antagonist Boom, Headshot! 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