Tropescilloscope: Ironic Echo

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Abusive Parents Pay Evil unto Evil Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Dirty Cop Face–Heel Turn Real Life Writes the Plot Redshirt Army Darkest Hour Author Appeal Batman Gambit French Films Manipulative Bastard Daddy's Girl Married to the Job Major Injury Underreaction Very Loosely Based on a True Story Pyrrhic Victory Cool Shades Action Girl Body Horror Large Ham Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Race Against the Clock Gratuitous English Creator Cameo Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Action Genre Sequel Hook Four-Temperament Ensemble Early Installment Weirdness Time Skip Cool Car Instant Death Bullet Not So Above It All Wounded Gazelle Gambit I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Self-Deprecation Shipper on Deck Ascended Extra Retcon Affectionate Parody Adaptation Dye-Job Wham Shot Smoking Is Cool Break the Haughty Meaningful Background Event Villain with Good Publicity A Minor Kidroduction Took a Level in Badass "The Reason You Suck" Speech Sealed Evil in a Can I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Mythology Gag Double Entendre The '60s Off-into-the-Distance Ending Stylistic Suck Jerk with a Heart of Gold Vampire Fiction Put on a Bus The Great Depression Evil Counterpart Improbable Weapon User Kids Are Cruel Cassandra Truth No-Holds-Barred Beatdown From Nobody to Nightmare Butt-Monkey Dark and Troubled Past Henpecked Husband Manly Tears Failed a Spot Check Random Events Plot I Need a Freaking Drink The Atoner Bolivian Army Ending Running Gag After the End Fire-Forged Friends Bittersweet Ending Motor Mouth Despair Event Horizon Ungrateful Bastard Asshole Victim Amusing Injuries NO INDOOR VOICE The Stinger Sequel Escalation The Dragon Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome And the Adventure Continues Stuff Blowing Up Insult Backfire Beard of Evil Jitter Cam Important Haircut Advertised Extra Mooks Revenge Love at First Sight Not So Stoic Wicked Cultured Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Dropped a Bridge on Him Police Brutality And I Must Scream Stalker with a Crush Anachronism Stew The Faceless Attempted Rape Older Than They Look Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Together in Death World of Ham Stealth Pun True Companions Posthumous Character Casting Gag Big Bad Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Camera Abuse Broken Pedestal Foregone Conclusion A God Am I Overly Long Gag Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Final Girl Names to Run Away from Really Fast Sanity Slippage La Résistance Stock Footage Deadpan Snarker Badass Longcoat The Ditz It's All About Me The Cameo Dissonant Serenity Big Eater No Name Given Cool Guns Does Not Like Shoes Have a Gay Old Time Eiffel Tower Effect No-Sell Not Using the "Z" Word Cruel and Unusual Death Male Gaze Artistic License – Biology Star-Crossed Lovers Badass Normal Historical Hero Upgrade Black Best Friend Stealth Hi/Bye Bound and Gagged Alas, Poor Villain Expository Hairstyle Change Silent Movie Chekhov's Skill Abhorrent Admirer Mighty Whitey Suspiciously Similar Substitute Dark Is Not Evil Eureka Moment Mr. Exposition Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Crucified Hero Shot Villainous Breakdown Boom, Headshot! Unreliable Narrator Bloody Hilarious Crazy Jealous Guy In Name Only Dwindling Party Adaptation Distillation Hair-Trigger Temper Jerkass Has a Point The Stoic Due to the Dead Blackmail Papa Wolf Friend to All Children Screw This, I'm Outta Here! The Film of the Book Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Vomit Discretion Shot Didn't Think This Through Composite Character Creative Closing Credits Improvised Weapon Shirtless Scene The Brute Improbable Aiming Skills Gold Digger Rated M for Manly Be Careful What You Wish For No Ending Took a Level in Jerkass Room Full of Crazy Outrun the Fireball Love Triangle Reckless Gun Usage Thriller Creepy Child Villain Song Adaptation Name Change Anti-Hero Paper-Thin Disguise Epic Fail 20 Minutes into the Future Depraved Bisexual Translation Convention Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Disney Villain Death Only Known by Their Nickname Defiant to the End Narrator Freudian Excuse No OSHA Compliance Face Death with Dignity Male Frontal Nudity Fanservice Would Hurt a Child Light Is Not Good German Films Red Herring Badass in a Nice Suit Mercy Kill Defrosting Ice Queen The Lost Lenore Contrived Coincidence The Mafia Scenery Porn Deal with the Devil Historical In-Joke As You Know May–December Romance Historical-Domain Character Immune to Bullets Roaring Rampage of Revenge Gorn Ambiguously Gay Pretty in Mink Soundtrack Dissonance Lock and Load Montage Parental Abandonment Ms. Fanservice The Musical Frame-Up Bloodier and Gorier There Is No Kill Like Overkill Ship Tease Mistaken for Gay Brother–Sister Incest Lighter and Softer Red Oni, Blue Oni Combat Pragmatist Reality Has No Subtitles Noodle Incident Needs Wiki Magic Love Military and Warfare Films Kill 'em All Worthy Opponent Video Credits Drives Like Crazy Toplessness from the Back Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Kick the Dog Cat Scare Horror Films Cloudcuckoolander Your Cheating Heart Killed Mid-Sentence Scare Chord Oh, Crap! 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Or Is It? Film Series Driven to Suicide Calling the Old Man Out Big "NO!" Interrupted Suicide Diabolus ex Machina Same Language Dub Film Noir Missing Mom Mugging the Monster Brutal Honesty Woman Scorned Captain Obvious Politically Incorrect Villain Hell Is That Noise Closed Circle Taking the Bullet Shout-Out Based on a True Story Demoted to Extra Suddenly SHOUTING! Riddle for the Ages Fat Bastard Bloodless Carnage Would Hit a Girl Broken Bird You Have Failed Me He Who Fights Monsters For the Evulz Gory Discretion Shot Distracted by the Sexy Meaningful Name The Alcoholic What You Are in the Dark No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Card-Carrying Villain Fourth Date Marriage Punch-Clock Villain Dirty Old Man Rousing Speech Pragmatic Adaptation Fantasy Films Those Two Bad Guys Training Montage What Happened to the Mouse? Insane Troll Logic You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Action Survivor Fanservice Extra Hypocrite The Chessmaster Horror Comedy "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Music Stories The Ace Award-Bait Song Rule of Funny Cluster F-Bomb Visual Pun Death by Sex Double-Meaning Title Mexican Standoff Never My Fault The Alleged Car Tempting Fate The Place Intrepid Reporter Accidental Murder Left the Background Music On Nice Guy Earn Your Happy Ending Bury Your Gays Downer Ending Police are Useless Twist Ending Parental Incest Idiot Ball Bar Brawl Rule of Cool Kubrick Stare Precision F-Strike Back from the Dead Rule of Symbolism Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Ripped from the Headlines Unspoken Plan Guarantee Humiliation Conga Red Shirt Babies Ever After Nice Hat Drowning My Sorrows The Remake Not So Different The Voiceless Hooker with a Heart of Gold Beauty Is Never Tarnished Dirty Coward Wretched Hive Hidden Depths Offscreen Moment of Awesome Soft Glass Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Up to Eleven My Greatest Failure Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Obfuscating Stupidity Biopic Spell My Name with an "S" Parental Neglect The Un-Reveal Hong Kong Films Market-Based Title Affably Evil Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Adaptational Badass The X of Y Christmas Movies Index Curse Cut Short Plucky Comic Relief You Killed My Father Made of Explodium Off with His Head! I Did What I Had to Do Only in It for the Money Car Fu Genre Throwback Cool Old Guy Break the Cutie The '80s Serious Business Maybe Ever After The Casanova Foil Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Good Is Not Nice Index of Film Westerns Slap-Slap-Kiss Faking the Dead Works Set in World War II Eldritch Abomination Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Vacation Films Jerk Jock Foreshadowing Make It Look Like an Accident Truth in Television Moment Killer Dark Action Girl Humans Are Bastards Ax-Crazy Storming the Castle Zombie Stories Unusual Euphemism Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Unwitting Instigator of Doom Gilligan Cut The Sociopath Greater-Scope Villain Leaning on the Fourth Wall Death by Irony Only Sane Man The '50s Our Zombies Are Different Ominous Latin Chanting Armor-Piercing Question Artistic License – Military Bad Boss Peek-a-Boo Corpse Refuge in Audacity Artistic License – Gun Safety My Beloved Smother Funny Background Event Only One Name Air-Vent Passageway The Reveal How We Got Here Romantic False Lead Epic Movie Sexy Discretion Shot Black Comedy Rape Villain Ball Eyepatch of Power The Mole Villain Opening Scene Grievous Bottley Harm Men Are the Expendable Gender Adults Are Useless Aside Glance Black Comedy Bunny-Ears Lawyer Call-Forward Corrupt Corporate Executive Animal Motifs What the Hell, Hero? 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She's Got Legs Age Lift Dull Surprise Bad "Bad Acting" Sole Survivor Five-Man Band Flashback Handicapped Badass Tap on the Head Belligerent Sexual Tension Author Avatar Adapted Out Almost Kiss Shower Scene Half the Man He Used to Be Bottomless Magazines Fatal Family Photo Fingore Mood Whiplash Hollywood Law Loophole Abuse Becoming the Mask Animal Title Index Rape as Drama Dogged Nice Guy Line-of-Sight Name Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Aluminum Christmas Trees Monumental Damage Hoist by His Own Petard N-Word Privileges Tranquil Fury Beware the Nice Ones Those Two Guys Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Chekhov's Gun Imagine Spot The Hero Dies Chase Scene And Starring Bowdlerise Leitmotif Flipping the Bird Fish out of Water Wham Line Corpsing Cowboy Cop Bilingual Bonus Real Life Gainax Ending Adaptational Villainy The '70s Accidental Misnaming Early-Bird Cameo Rewatch Bonus