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