Tropescilloscope: Jerkass Has a Point
The Jerkass gives a valid argument. (read more at tvtropes.org)
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She's Got Legs
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Dressing as the Enemy
Big "NO!"
Irony
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Gold Digger
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Oh, Crap!
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Say My Name
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It Will Never Catch On
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Only in It for the Money
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Malevolent Masked Men
Exactly What It Says on the Tin
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Did Not Get the Girl
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign
Accidental Murder
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Here We Go Again!
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Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
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Anyone Can Die
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I Need a Freaking Drink
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Even Evil Has Standards
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Intergenerational Friendship
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Back from the Dead
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Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Dark Is Not Evil
Reality Has No Subtitles
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How We Got Here
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Television Movie Index
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Cat Fight
Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer
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Riddle for the Ages
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Failed a Spot Check
Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
True Companions
Unresolved Sexual Tension
Breaking the Fourth Wall
Sequel Escalation
Tap on the Head
Evil Brit
Combat Pragmatist
The Cavalry
What You Are in the Dark
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Jerkass Has a Point
Fatal Family Photo
Unusual Euphemism
Kids Are Cruel
Mundane Made Awesome
Pay Evil unto Evil
Police are Useless
Bullying a Dragon
No OSHA Compliance
World of Ham
Older Than They Look
Take a Third Option
Manchild
Chase Scene
You Killed My Father
Married to the Job
Eureka Moment
Asshole Victim
Red Herring
One Steve Limit
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Slasher Movie
Biopic
Film Noir
It's All About Me
Too Dumb to Live
Better to Die than Be Killed
Evil vs. Evil
Demonic Possession
Earn Your Happy Ending
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More Dakka
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Not Quite Dead
Man on Fire
Book-Ends
Sassy Black Woman
Dark Reprise
All Men Are Perverts
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Artistic License Physics
And I Must Scream
Hidden Depths
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Broken Pedestal
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Laughing Mad
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MacGuffin
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Smoking Is Cool
Babies Ever After
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Artistic License Law
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Rule of Symbolism
Pretty in Mink
Actually Pretty Funny
Tempting Fate
It's Personal
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Only Known by Their Nickname
Novelization
Based on a True Story
Spiteful Spit
Politically Incorrect Villain
Your Cheating Heart
Alliterative Name
Karmic Death
Dies Wide Open
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Adaptation Expansion
Mistaken for Gay
And the Adventure Continues
Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
You Have Failed Me
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Disappeared Dad
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Groin Attack
Everyone Has Standards
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All There in the Manual
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Getting Crap Past the Radar
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The Hero Dies
I Have Your Wife
Never Trust a Trailer
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Beauty Is Never Tarnished
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Domestic Abuse
Evil Plan
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Country Matters
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Spanner in the Works
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Lock and Load Montage
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Informed Ability
Epic Movie
Guile Hero
Big Damn Heroes
Adaptation Distillation
Heroes Want Redheads
Revenge
Romantic False Lead
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Roger Ebert: Great Movies List
Shoot the Shaggy Dog
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Expy
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The Load
In Medias Res
Bloodless Carnage
Mr. Fanservice
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
Pretty Little Headshots
Shower Scene
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Arch-Enemy
Love at First Sight
From Nobody to Nightmare
Enemy Mine
She Cleans Up Nicely
Age Lift
Shirtless Scene
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Alas, Poor Villain
Villain Opening Scene
Break the Cutie
Chekhov's Gun
Developing Doomed Characters
Fanservice
Missing Mom
Never Trust a Trailer
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Punny Name
Ascended Extra
Every Car Is a Pinto
Agony of the Feet
Killed Mid-Sentence
Wham Line
Jerk Jock
Recycled IN SPACE!
Spell My Name with an "S"
Almost Kiss
Stuff Blowing Up
Up to Eleven
Extremely Short Timespan
Friend to All Children
Took a Level in Badass
Card-Carrying Villain
Action Girl
Put on a Bus
"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Casanova
20 Minutes into the Future
Calling the Old Man Out
Blood from the Mouth
Toilet Humour
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Mama Bear
Rasputinian Death
Taking You with Me
Hell Is That Noise
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
Visual Pun
Leave the Camera Running
Properly Paranoid
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Facial Horror
Adaptational Villainy
Men Are the Expendable Gender
Drowning My Sorrows
Big Bad
Call-Forward
Our Vampires Are Different
Setting Update
Humiliation Conga
Make It Look Like an Accident
Pragmatic Villainy
Anguished Declaration of Love
Love Triangle
Not So Different
BFG
Vomit Indiscretion Shot
It Can Think
Peek-a-Boo Corpse
Black and Gray Morality
The Chessmaster
Wretched Hive
Heroic Sacrifice
Dissonant Serenity
Really Gets Around
Token Minority
The Power of Love
Actor Allusion
Despair Event Horizon
From Bad to Worse
I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
For Want of a Nail
Redshirt Army
Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Cool Car
Bound and Gagged
Betty and Veronica
Index of Film Westerns
Continuity Nod
Superhero
Naked People Are Funny
Decoy Protagonist
Big Eater
Mythology Gag
Darkest Hour
NO INDOOR VOICE
Mugging the Monster
Cruel and Unusual Death
Refuge in Audacity
Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
Double Entendre
Downer Ending
Super Strength
The Hero
Silent Movie
Double-Meaning Title
Never Found the Body
Gone Horribly Right
"Awesome McCool" Name
Meaningful Background Event
Soft Glass
Framing Device
The Smart Guy
Batman Gambit
Black Best Friend
Depraved Bisexual
Famous Last Words
Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
Plucky Comic Relief
Same Language Dub
Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Honor Before Reason
Jump Scare
Parental Abandonment
All Just a Dream
Major Injury Underreaction
Those Two Guys
And Starring
Danny Peary Cult Movies List
Artistic License Military
Obviously Evil
Parental Incest
Instant Death Bullet
Villainous Breakdown
Adaptation Name Change
Shell-Shocked Veteran
Epic Fail
Break the Haughty
Maybe Ever After
Brick Joke
Call-Back
Aluminum Christmas Trees
Big Brother Instinct
Author Avatar
Psycho for Hire
Meaningful Name
Plot Hole
Broken Bird
Disproportionate Retribution
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Not Even Bothering with the Accent
Worthy Opponent
Japanese Films
N-Word Privileges
Henpecked Husband
Brainless Beauty
Spared by the Adaptation
The Cameo
Psychopathic Manchild
Face Death with Dignity
Half the Man He Used to Be
Flashback
Bunny-Ears Lawyer
What Happened to the Mouse?
Artistic License Geography
Ambiguous Ending
Foil
No Name Given
I Did What I Had to Do
Dark and Troubled Past
Does This Remind You of Anything?
Cool Shades
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience
The Starscream
Vacation Films
Defiant to the End
Light Is Not Good
Foreshadowing
Butt-Monkey
Gilligan Cut
Bait-and-Switch
Offscreen Moment of Awesome
The '70s
Screw This, I'm Outta Here!
Zombie Stories
Genre Throwback
Bi the Way
Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Pet the Dog
Amoral Attorney
Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
Ungrateful Bastard
All There in the Script
Bloody Hilarious
Cowboy Cop
Heel Realization
Psychological Thriller
Straight Gay
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Retirony
Those Two Bad Guys
My Beloved Smother
Sequel Hook
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
The Ghost
As the Good Book Says...
Wham Shot
There Is No Kill Like Overkill
What the Hell, Hero?
Romantic Comedy
My Greatest Failure
Real Life Writes the Plot
One-Word Title
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
One-Man Army
The '60s
Lampshade Hanging
Adaptational Attractiveness
Scary Black Man
La Résistance
Mad Scientist
Monumental Damage
Artistic License Gun Safety
Made of Iron
Badass in a Nice Suit
Dark Action Girl
Woman in White
Take That!
Took a Level in Jerkass
Animated Credits Opening
'80s Hair
Bury Your Gays
Mind Screw
Throwing Your Sword Always Works
Freeze-Frame Bonus
Ambiguous Disorder
Improvised Weapon
Happily Married
Determinator
aka: The Determinator
Off with His Head!
Jerkass
Funny Background Event
The Great Depression
Dogged Nice Guy
Loophole Abuse
Animal Title Index
Protagonist Title
Dull Surprise
Deus ex Machina
Hope Spot
Diabolus ex Machina
Homage
Coming-of-Age Story
An Aesop
Police Brutality
Evil-Detecting Dog
MayDecember Romance
Bare Your Midriff
Composite Character
Stylistic Suck
Cold-Blooded Torture
Insult Backfire
Children Are Innocent
Implacable Man
Dramatic Irony
Immune to Bullets
Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Didn't Think This Through
Cloudcuckoolander
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
Overly Long Gag
Interrupted Suicide
Parental Substitute
Playing Gertrude
Death Seeker
Car Fu