Tropescilloscope: I Want My Beloved to Be Happy

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Guy Loads and Loads of Characters "The Reason You Suck" Speech Daylight Horror Hero of Another Story Manly Tears Ass Shove Dumb Blonde Reckless Gun Usage Defrosting Ice Queen Demoted to Extra Spell My Name with an "S" Destination Defenestration Whole Plot Reference Rule of Symbolism Antagonist Title I Did What I Had to Do Vomit Discretion Shot It's Personal Would Hurt a Child Overprotective Dad NO INDOOR VOICE Horror Comedy Epic Movie Based on a True Story Half the Man He Used to Be Refuge in Audacity "Shaggy Dog" Story Nice Hat Say My Name Skewed Priorities Anachronism Stew Television Movie Index May–December Romance Major Injury Underreaction Documentary Freudian Excuse As Himself Extremely Short Timespan 20 Minutes into the Future Left the Background Music On The Alleged Car Kubrick Stare BFG Broken Pedestal Ambiguous Ending Smoking Is Cool Villain Opening Scene Death by Sex Happily Married Psychopathic Manchild Evil Is Petty Determinator aka: The Determinator Mystery and Detective Films Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Gratuitous English Artistic License – History Once More, with Clarity! 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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Rule of Cool Dies Wide Open No Celebrities Were Harmed I Have Your Wife Eagleland Domestic Abuse The Lancer A Date with Rosie Palms Running Gag Police are Useless Black and Gray Morality Be Careful What You Wish For Double Entendre Shoot the Shaggy Dog Mind Screw Anguished Declaration of Love Heroic BSoD The '80s Stealth Pun The Vamp Title Drop True Companions No Antagonist Star-Crossed Lovers Crazy-Prepared Kick the Son of a Bitch Bunny-Ears Lawyer The End... Or Is It? Retired Badass Romantic False Lead Every Car Is a Pinto The Stinger Eureka Moment Reality Has No Subtitles Henpecked Husband Self-Deprecation Wounded Gazelle Gambit Creepy Child Armor-Piercing Question Red Eyes, Take Warning Race Lift Combat Pragmatist Random Events Plot Unreliable Narrator Product Placement Gory Discretion Shot Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Parental Abandonment Madness Mantra Villain with Good Publicity Evil Counterpart Frame-Up After the End Hypocritical Humor A.I. Is a Crapshoot The Mafia I Just Shot Marvin in the Face She Cleans Up Nicely Developing Doomed Characters A God Am I Ghost Fiction Not So Stoic Big Brother Instinct French Films Alpha Bitch Plot Hole Funny Background Event Recycled IN SPACE! Film Series Punch-Clock Villain Arc Words Badass Boast Bury Your Gays Adaptational Attractiveness Fourth Date Marriage Closed Circle Mood Whiplash Artistic License – Biology Framing Device Rated M for Manly Hope Spot Bond One-Liner Bland-Name Product How We Got Here Hell Is That Noise Fanservice It Will Never Catch On Undying Loyalty Hypocrite Breaking the Fourth Wall Action Prologue Disney Villain Death Translation Convention Jerkass Has a Point Protagonist Title Grievous Bottley Harm Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Sexy Discretion Shot Revenge My God, What Have I Done? Better to Die than Be Killed Fat Bastard Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Film Noir Index Peek-a-Boo Corpse Those Two Guys You Have Failed Me Mr. Fanservice Artistic License – Geography Faking the Dead Throwing Your Sword Always Works Cluster F-Bomb Soft Glass Leaning on the Fourth Wall Narrator Casting Gag Book-Ends Unresolved Sexual Tension Mundane Made Awesome The Casanova Not So Different Wham Shot Insane Troll Logic Shipper on Deck Disappeared Dad Make It Look Like an Accident Continuity Nod Shirtless Scene Toplessness from the Back In Name Only The Bully Genre Throwback Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Guns Akimbo Visual Pun Horror Films Betty and Veronica Ship Tease Riddle for the Ages Improbable Aiming Skills Alas, Poor Villain Heel–Face Turn Zombie Stories Artistic License – Physics Adaptation Dye-Job Cool Shades Jerk Jock Video Credits Mythology Gag Everyone Has Standards No OSHA Compliance Yandere Intrepid Reporter The Hero Dies Bowdlerise Handicapped Badass Crucified Hero Shot Dark Reprise One-Man Army Exactly What It Says on the Tin Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Let's Get Dangerous! Black Best Friend Naked People Are Funny Token Minority Hong Kong Films Arch-Enemy Redshirt Army Actor Allusion Shell-Shocked Veteran Jitter Cam Laser-Guided Karma Foreshadowing Sadistic Choice Slasher Movie Motor Mouth Fun with Acronyms Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Manchild Even Evil Has Loved Ones Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Butt-Monkey Artistic License – Military Scare Chord The Alcoholic Here We Go Again! No Name Given Our Zombies Are Different Death by Adaptation Spiritual Successor Adaptational Badass A Minor Kidroduction Pet the Dog Card-Carrying Villain Big Applesauce Adaptation Distillation German Films Rule of Funny Ungrateful Bastard The Ghost Bar Brawl Action Genre Big Eater Bottomless Magazines Brainless Beauty Police Brutality Truth in Television O.O.C. Is Serious Business Death Glare Mama Bear No Ending Sole Survivor For Want of a Nail Expy Rewatch Bonus Fantastic Racism Love at First Sight Deliberate Values Dissonance Funny Foreigner Re-Cut Outrun the Fireball Real Life Writes the Plot Evil Laugh Arranged Marriage Pyrrhic Victory The Place Not What It Looks Like Only in It for the Money My Beloved Smother Taking You with Me The Smart Guy Bound and Gagged Adaptation Name Change Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Laughing Mad Curb-Stomp Battle Paper-Thin Disguise Dwindling Party Accidental Misnaming Evil Plan Dual Wielding You Killed My Father Big "NO!" Put on a Bus Blood Knight Red Shirt Drugs Are Bad The Remake Canadian Movies Creative Closing Credits Bond Villain Stupidity Karmic Death Failed a Spot Check Took a Level in Jerkass Last-Name Basis Authority Equals Asskicking Overly Long Gag Fan Disservice Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Spared by the Adaptation War Is Hell Only Sane Man Exact Words Brick Joke Fatal Family Photo Pay Evil unto Evil The '50s Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Darker and Edgier Pretty Little Headshots Broken Bird Only One Name Pretty in Mink Award-Bait Song Match Cut Getting Crap Past the Radar Deconstruction Fatal Flaw Does Not Like Shoes Boom, Headshot! 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Adult Fear Vacation Films Cool Old Guy Face–Heel Turn Papa Wolf Trailers Always Spoil Artistic License – Law "Awesome McCool" Name Men Are the Expendable Gender Take a Third Option Femme Fatale Daddy's Girl Tagline The Bad Guy Wins Posthumous Character Sacrificial Lion Italian Films Race Against the Clock Get Out! 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As the Good Book Says... Sequel Hook Beware the Nice Ones And the Adventure Continues Central Theme Canon Foreigner Gender Flip Market-Based Title Imagine Spot Leitmotif I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Martial Arts Movie Fake Shemp The Stoic Dramedy Beard of Evil Never Found the Body Lampshade Hanging Kill It with Fire Face Death with Dignity All Men Are Perverts Obviously Evil Parental Incest The Un-Reveal Fantasy Films Stalker with a Crush The Starscream folderlabel The X of Y Earn Your Happy Ending Knight Templar Obstructive Bureaucrat Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Implacable Man Call-Forward Badass in a Nice Suit Bad "Bad Acting" Ironic Echo Honor Before Reason Gainax Ending Fainting Bloodless Carnage Death by Irony Fingore The Reveal Darkest Hour Dropped a Bridge on Him Storming the Castle Shower Scene Mooks Reasonable Authority Figure Dark and Troubled Past Beauty Is Never Tarnished Worthy Opponent Informed Ability Thriller Foil The Quiet One Fire-Forged Friends Ominous Latin Chanting Pragmatic Adaptation Hate Sink Brother–Sister Incest Twist Ending Body Horror Captain Obvious Abhorrent Admirer Jerkass Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Mercy Kill Well-Intentioned Extremist Drives Like Crazy The Load Bolivian Army Ending There Is No Kill Like Overkill Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Jump Scare Chekhov's Gunman Catch-Phrase Almost Kiss Big Damn Heroes Demonic Possession Eldritch Abomination Four-Temperament Ensemble Film Noir Romantic Comedy Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie I Need a Freaking Drink Punny Name Vitriolic Best Buds Artistic License – Gun Safety Rousing Speech Evil-Detecting Dog Heroes Want Redheads Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Ax-Crazy Gorn Badass Bookworm Manic Pixie Dream Girl Damsel in Distress Genre Shift Expository Hairstyle Change Rich Bitch Badass Grandpa Science Fiction Films I'm a Humanitarian Meaningful Background Event Mr. Exposition Only Known by Their Nickname Crazy Jealous Guy You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Chiaroscuro The Power of Love Chase Scene Taking the Bullet Anti-Hero Interrupted Suicide Mighty Whitey Celebrity Paradox Parental Neglect Morality Pet Hollywood Darkness B-Movie The Faceless Evil Brit The '60s The Great Depression Wrong Genre Savvy Dressing as the Enemy Drill Sergeant Nasty Coming-of-Age Story Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Foregone Conclusion Flashback Improvised Weapon Cowboy Cop Break the Cutie Suspiciously Specific Denial Sports Stories A Father to His Men Military and Warfare Films Badass Longcoat The Dreaded Camp Gay Eye Scream Adaptational Heroism Only a Flesh Wound Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Silent Movie Ambiguously Gay Those Two Bad Guys Stuff Blowing Up Redemption Equals Death From Nobody to Nightmare Big Fancy House Anyone Can Die Black Dude Dies First Serious Business Deus ex Machina Made of Iron Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Historical Hero Upgrade Dark Action Girl The Atoner Fanservice Extra Cold-Blooded Torture Setting Update Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Five-Man Band Gold Digger Serial Killer Needs Wiki Magic Love Male Frontal Nudity Even Evil Has Standards Sassy Black Woman Superhero Music Stories Same Language Dub Dirty Old Man Lighter and Softer Intergenerational Friendship And I Must Scream Danny Peary Cult Movies List Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Humans Are Bastards Red Right Hand No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Insistent Terminology The Brute Cruel and Unusual Death Car Fu Christmas Movies Index Ripped from the Headlines Blood from the Mouth Cat Scare Slap-Slap-Kiss More Dakka Establishing Character Moment Costume Porn Important Haircut Early-Bird Cameo Stealth Hi/Bye Children Are Innocent Groin Attack Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Your Cheating Heart Wicked Cultured Parental Substitute Public Domain Feature Films Department of Redundancy Department Blackmail Adapted Out Ascended Extra Epic Fail Nice Guy Animated Credits Opening Animal Motifs Batman Gambit Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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