Tropescilloscope: Lampshade Hanging

Pointing out something within the story, to strengthen the audience's Willing Suspension of Disbelief. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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They Really Do Love Each Other Scary Black Man Skewed Priorities Left the Background Music On Posthumous Character Annoying Younger Sibling Pretty Little Headshots Nothing Is Scarier Cool Shades Papa Wolf Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Sequel Escalation Retired Badass Tap on the Head Last-Name Basis The Stinger Ship Tease Exact Words Super Strength Hero Antagonist Sexy Discretion Shot Gratuitous English Adaptation Dye-Job Television Movie Index Match Cut No Name Given Only One Name Babies Ever After Mood Whiplash Kick the Dog Cool Old Lady Not So Stoic Jitter Cam Improbable Aiming Skills Dirty Cop Darkest Hour Despair Event Horizon Black Dude Dies First Toplessness from the Back timeperiod Break the Cutie Scenery Porn Double Entendre And I Must Scream N-Word Privileges Be Careful What You Wish For Sealed Evil in a Can Body Horror Science Fiction Films Only a Flesh Wound Mad Scientist Unresolved Sexual Tension Pimped-Out Dress Random Events Plot Worthy Opponent Ax-Crazy Bavarian Fire Drill Wounded Gazelle Gambit Fun with Acronyms Slasher Smile Deliberately Monochrome Make It Look Like an Accident Properly Paranoid Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Neck Lift Not Using the "Z" Word Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Woman Scorned Totally Radical Anguished Declaration of Love Men Are the Expendable Gender Facial Horror World of Ham Twist Ending "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Dumb Blonde Rewatch Bonus Horror Films Fate Worse than Death Betty and Veronica Punny Name Small Name, Big Ego Big Brother Instinct Auto Erotica Dying Moment of Awesome Dies Wide Open Face Death with Dignity Curb-Stomp Battle Everyone Has Standards Large Ham Flipping the Bird One Steve Limit Depraved Bisexual Horror Comedy The Atoner Rape as Drama Madness Mantra Interrupted Suicide Idiot Ball Tranquil Fury "Well Done, Son!" Guy Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Deliberate Values Dissonance Foreshadowing Faux Affably Evil Early-Bird Cameo Henpecked Husband Bloodless Carnage Roaring Rampage of Revenge Fourth Date Marriage Eagleland Lock and Load Montage No Celebrities Were Harmed Would Hit a Girl Author Avatar Animal Motifs Humans Are Bastards The Film of the Book All Men Are Perverts And Starring The Bad Guy Wins The Ghost Narrator Death by Irony Fish out of Water Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Important Haircut Heroic Sacrifice folderlabel Better to Die than Be Killed Guile Hero The Stoner Man on Fire Rich Bitch Faking the Dead My Greatest Failure Biopic Adaptational Badass The Mafia Alpha Bitch Those Two Bad Guys Gone Horribly Right Soft Glass As You Know Hate Sink Film Series Parental Abandonment The Cavalry Brother–Sister Incest Exactly What It Says on the Tin Motor Mouth Vomit Indiscretion Shot Adults Are Useless Wham Shot Nice Guy How We Got Here Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Neck Snap Brick Joke Action Prologue The Great Depression The Un-Reveal Freudian Excuse Bury Your Gays Historical Hero Upgrade Psychopathic Manchild Groin Attack Central Theme Mundane Made Awesome Red Eyes, Take Warning Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Cool Old Guy Not So Above It All Half the Man He Used to Be Older Than They Look Cassandra Truth Sinister Minister Villain Protagonist Epic Fail Evil Brit Film Noir Bittersweet Ending No Antagonist Badass Bookworm Translation Convention Russian Films Bar Brawl Reckless Gun Usage Book-Ends Kick the Son of a Bitch Running Gag Refuge in Audacity Empathic Environment Black and Gray Morality Ascended Extra Badass Longcoat Foregone Conclusion Cruel and Unusual Death Grievous Bottley Harm Token Minority Irony A Minor Kidroduction Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Would Hurt a Child Actually Pretty Funny Frame-Up Fan Disservice Documentary Novelization Took a Level in Jerkass Wrong Genre Savvy Adult Fear Stylistic Suck Animal Title Index Same Language Dub What You Are in the Dark Foil Broken Pedestal Femme Fatale Sequel Hook Actor Allusion Meaningful Name Insane Troll Logic Monumental Damage Dramedy You Have Failed Me Superhero Dogged Nice Guy Heroes Want Redheads Ass Shove All There in the Manual Take a Third Option Creepy Child Jerkass Has a Point Greater-Scope Villain Unusual Euphemism The Chick Anachronic Order Your Cheating Heart Sci-Fi Horror Bound and Gagged My God, What Have I Done? Redshirt Army Anti-Villain Setting Update There Is No Kill Like Overkill Chiaroscuro Badass Normal Covers Always Lie Outrun the Fireball Artistic License – Gun Safety Chekhov's Gunman Fat Bastard Mexican Standoff Historical-Domain Character Leave the Camera Running Karma Houdini Precision F-Strike Canon Foreigner Mighty Whitey And the Adventure Continues Evil Sounds Deep Undying Loyalty Christmas Movies Index Product Placement Sadistic Choice Badass Boast The Lancer Ambiguously Gay Dark Reprise As Long as It Sounds Foreign Dwindling Party Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Good Is Not Nice The Ace Broken Aesop Race Lift I Did What I Had to Do Wretched Hive Abhorrent Admirer Contrived Coincidence More Dakka Wicked Cultured Disney Death Extreme Doormat Bad "Bad Acting" Deconstruction Bloody Hilarious Male Gaze Red Right Hand Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Retcon Death of a Child Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Jerkass The Load Spanner in the Works Age Lift Ghost Fiction Adaptational Attractiveness Expy Decoy Protagonist BFG Unspoken Plan Guarantee Kids Are Cruel Trailers Always Spoil Historical Villain Upgrade The Mole Laser-Guided Karma Manic Pixie Dream Girl Earn Your Happy Ending Gorn 20 Minutes into the Future Genre Savvy Did Not Get the Girl Captain Obvious Friend to All Children Disney Villain Death Implacable Man Stealth Hi/Bye Evil Is Hammy Calling the Old Man Out Fatal Family Photo Developing Doomed Characters Scare Chord The Cameo Villain with Good Publicity Insistent Terminology The '80s Hypocritical Humor Conspicuous CG Famous Last Words Video Credits Handicapped Badass Logo Joke Oh, Crap! 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Kill It with Fire Gold Digger Advertised Extra Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Dark Is Not Evil No Ending An Arm and a Leg Rule of Symbolism Heel Realization Corrupt Corporate Executive Spell My Name with an "S" Captain Ersatz Call-Back Get Out! Creative Closing Credits Made of Explodium Dressing as the Enemy Vampire Fiction Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Instant Death Bullet True Companions Mama Bear Easily Forgiven The Oner The '90s Evil vs. Evil Those Wacky Nazis Villain Song Bare Your Midriff It's All About Me The Hero Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Have a Gay Old Time Bloodier and Gorier The Dog Bites Back Knight Templar Cat Fight The Dragon B-Movie Manipulative Bastard Index of Film Westerns Cool Car Chewing the Scenery Demonic Possession Bottomless Magazines Shipper on Deck Composite Character Fake Shemp Hollywood Darkness Names to Run Away from Really Fast Crucified Hero Shot Mercy Kill What Happened to the Mouse? 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Bullying a Dragon Vitriolic Best Buds Psychological Thriller Stepford Smiler Leitmotif Sole Survivor All Girls Want Bad Boys Never My Fault Word of God The Lost Lenore Truth in Television Crazy Jealous Guy Card-Carrying Villain I'm a Humanitarian No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Guns Akimbo Disguised in Drag The Voiceless Obstructive Bureaucrat Shower Scene Anachronism Stew Dark Action Girl Air-Vent Passageway Country Matters Mr. Exposition Based on a True Story Drowning My Sorrows Bilingual Bonus Domestic Abuse Rule of Cool Big Applesauce Improvised Weapon Tempting Fate Death Seeker Suspiciously Specific Denial Imagine Spot Pay Evil unto Evil Naïve Newcomer As Himself Camera Abuse Black Comedy Rape Cluster F-Bomb Scenery Gorn Heterosexual Life-Partners Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Abusive Parents Alas, Poor Villain Mind Screw Crapsack World Face–Heel Turn Hero of Another Story Double-Meaning Title Authority Equals Asskicking Suspiciously Similar Substitute British Films Redemption Equals Death French Films Stuff Blowing Up Only Known by Their Nickname Riddle for the Ages Together in Death Obfuscating Stupidity Mooks Yandere Our Vampires Are Different Italian Films Shirtless Scene Maybe Ever After Evil Laugh Back from the Dead Fiery Redhead Room Full of Crazy Mystery and Detective Films A Date with Rosie Palms Moment Killer Sports Stories Taking You with Me Evil Is Petty Ambiguous Disorder The Bully Enemy Mine Woman in White Almost Kiss Ironic Echo In Medias Res My Beloved Smother Unwitting Instigator of Doom Pretty in Mink MacGuffin Noodle Incident Sir Swears-a-Lot Rousing Speech Coming-of-Age Story The Power of Love Dissonant Serenity Bait-and-Switch Hidden Depths Fire-Forged Friends Danny Peary Cult Movies List You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Hollywood Law Non-Indicative Name Informed Ability Drill Sergeant Nasty Australian Movies Creator Cameo Stock Footage Stealth Pun Boom, Headshot! 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Belligerent Sexual Tension Soundtrack Dissonance Dropped a Bridge on Him Well-Intentioned Extremist Deal with the Devil Say My Name This Is Gonna Suck Artistic License – Geography Not Even Bothering with the Accent Not So Different Not Quite Dead Aside Glance Action Genre Failed a Spot Check Malevolent Masked Men Only Sane Man Slap-Slap-Kiss Hypocrite Fingore Artistic License – Biology Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Blood Knight Offscreen Teleportation "Shaggy Dog" Story She Cleans Up Nicely Gilligan Cut Adaptational Heroism Break the Haughty Cain and Abel Straight Gay Eureka Moment Batman Gambit Dirty Coward He Knows Too Much Japanese Films Black Best Friend Loophole Abuse Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Evil Plan Daylight Horror I Have Your Wife The Brute Pragmatic Adaptation Time Skip Accidental Murder Bad Boss Title Drop The Faceless For Want of a Nail The Smart Guy Meet Cute Big Eater Driven to Suicide Spared by the Adaptation Parental Neglect Amusing Injuries From Bad to Worse Action Girl Chekhov's Gun All There in the Script He Who Fights Monsters Race Against the Clock Hooker with a Heart of Gold Canadian Movies Humiliation Conga Mugging the Monster Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Fatal Flaw Silent Movie Epic Movie Hoist by His Own Petard Suddenly SHOUTING! One-Word Title The Alleged Car Zombie Stories Silence Is Golden War Is Hell The X of Y Shut Up, Hannibal! Big Fancy House Smoking Is Cool Whole Plot Reference Cold-Blooded Torture Rule of Three The Quiet One Beauty Is Never Tarnished Combat Pragmatist Stalker with a Crush German Films Never Found the Body Let's Get Dangerous! 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