Tropescilloscope: I Want My Beloved to Be Happy

If I can't have you, fine. Just smile. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Arranged Marriage Cool Guns Big Bad Duumvirate Combat Pragmatist Red Shirt Sealed Evil in a Can Slasher Movie Black Comedy Victoria's Secret Compartment Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Title Drop Chekhov's Skill Nice Hat Zombie Stories Parental Incest A Minor Kidroduction The Dreaded Foreshadowing Henpecked Husband Shown Their Work Spiritual Successor Put on a Bus Spared by the Adaptation British Films La Résistance "Shaggy Dog" Story Exact Words Spanner in the Works Love Triangle My Beloved Smother She Cleans Up Nicely Only in It for the Money Villain Song Never Found the Body Major Injury Underreaction Arc Words Would Hurt a Child Bond Villain Stupidity Leitmotif World of Ham Very Loosely Based on a True Story Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Villain Ball Thriller The Chessmaster Twist Ending The Big Guy Skewed Priorities Our Zombies Are Different Grey and Gray Morality Deadpan Snarker Film Noir Index Off with His Head! 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Improvised Weapon Sassy Black Woman All Just a Dream 20 Minutes into the Future Novelization Call-Back In Name Only Hoist by His Own Petard Call-Forward Token Minority Wham Line Protagonist Title Last-Name Basis Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Tempting Fate Italian Films Advertised Extra Big Brother Instinct Brainless Beauty Precision F-Strike Leave the Camera Running Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Christmas Movies Index Action Survivor Television Movie Index The Film of the Book Beta Couple Word of God Cold-Blooded Torture Flashback Dull Surprise Shut Up, Hannibal! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Together in Death Mistaken for Gay Action Genre Camp Gay Accidental Misnaming Agony of the Feet Fake Shemp Femme Fatale Composite Character Pre-Mortem One-Liner Take a Third Option Ascended Extra Conspicuous CG Hell Is That Noise Throwing Your Sword Always Works Suddenly SHOUTING! 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You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Dark Reprise Gory Discretion Shot The Mole The Quiet One Laughing Mad