Tropescilloscope: Kids Are Cruel

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