Tropescilloscope: It Will Never Catch On

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