Tropescilloscope: Laser-Guided Karma

When bad things happen to bad people at opportune times. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Names to Run Away from Really Fast Offscreen Moment of Awesome Fatal Family Photo Refuge in Audacity Scenery Porn Bi the Way Fiery Redhead Recycled IN SPACE! Shoot the Shaggy Dog The Dog Bites Back Ass Shove Posthumous Character Laser-Guided Karma Mystery and Detective Films Those Wacky Nazis Gone Horribly Right Dramedy Corrupt Corporate Executive Alpha Bitch Anachronism Stew Dutch Angle Hair-Trigger Temper Vomit Discretion Shot Demoted to Extra Failed a Spot Check Evil Laugh Beware the Nice Ones Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Adaptational Attractiveness Dressing as the Enemy Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Punny Name Bond One-Liner All There in the Script Accidental Misnaming Ironic Echo Children Are Innocent Improvised Weapon Creepy Child Bloody Hilarious Back from the Dead Line-of-Sight Name Bond Villain Stupidity The Ditz Cold-Blooded Torture Jerkass Has a Point One-Word Title Shown Their Work Psychopathic Manchild Dark Is Not Evil Shut Up, Hannibal! Slasher Movie Epic Movie Not Even Bothering with the Accent Pyrrhic Victory Sexy Discretion Shot Deconstruction Reckless Gun Usage Revenge Pet the Dog Action Survivor Bittersweet Ending Artistic License – Law Dirty Coward Tagline You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Truth in Television Stalker with a Crush Wham Line As the Good Book Says... Karma Houdini Sequel Hook Works Set in World War II Final Girl Hero Antagonist Mama Bear Training Montage Disney Villain Death Dying Moment of Awesome Race Lift Happily Married Playing Gertrude No OSHA Compliance Smug Snake Genre Throwback Retired Badass Black Comedy Rape Mad Scientist Slasher Smile Gratuitous English Fire-Forged Friends Noodle Incident Politically Incorrect Villain Worthy Opponent Half the Man He Used to Be Continuity Nod Heroic BSoD No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Chekhov's Gunman Japanese Films Camera Abuse Hypocrite Interrupted Suicide Darkest Hour Jerk with a Heart of Gold Toplessness from the Back Casting Gag The Big Guy The '60s Serial Killer Every Car Is a Pinto The Cavalry No Celebrities Were Harmed Gory Discretion Shot Shell-Shocked Veteran Word of God Too Dumb to Live Translation Convention Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Narrator All Just a Dream Irony Riddle for the Ages Race Against the Clock In the Back Deliberate Values Dissonance Dirty Cop Laughing Mad Badass in a Nice Suit He Knows Too Much Hero of Another Story Belligerent Sexual Tension Animal Title Index Foil Butt-Monkey Film Noir Index Maybe Ever After Central Theme Blatant Lies A.I. Is a Crapshoot Berserk Button Wounded Gazelle Gambit Fingore Spanner in the Works Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Police are Useless Deliberately Monochrome Black Comedy Cool Guns Hong Kong Films Soundtrack Dissonance The Ace Hate Sink Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Here We Go Again! Eiffel Tower Effect The '90s Wham Shot Bunny-Ears Lawyer Death Seeker Ambiguously Gay Eureka Moment British Films Mistaken for Gay The Lost Lenore Flipping the Bird Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Adaptation Dye-Job Only in It for the Money Dramatic Irony Television Movie Index Tranquil Fury Expository Hairstyle Change Unusually Uninteresting Sight Anguished Declaration of Love Agony of the Feet Celebrity Paradox Our Vampires Are Different The '80s Spell My Name with an "S" Action Prologue Horror Comedy As You Know Deadpan Snarker Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Famous Last Words Conspicuous CG Historical Hero Upgrade Brutal Honesty Crazy-Prepared Evil Sounds Deep Woman in White I Did What I Had to Do Groin Attack Faking the Dead Villain Opening Scene Police Brutality Shout-Out Scary Black Man Rule of Funny Death by Irony Rated M for Manly Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Sole Survivor No Name Given Poor Communication Kills Silence Is Golden Armor-Piercing Question Shower Scene The Casanova The Load And Starring Captain Ersatz Ungrateful Bastard Manchild Almost Kiss Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil He Who Fights Monsters Dark Reprise Corpsing Ax-Crazy Biopic Call-Back Heroes Want Redheads Funny Background Event Sinister Minister Extremely Short Timespan Stock Footage Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Not So Above It All Bare Your Midriff The Stoic Implacable Man Serious Business The Alcoholic Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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The Vamp Married to the Job Villain with Good Publicity Logo Joke Malevolent Masked Men Amusing Injuries Easily Forgiven Mooks Diabolus ex Machina Horror Films Dwindling Party Artistic License – Military Friend to All Children Well-Intentioned Extremist What Happened to the Mouse? Storming the Castle Video Credits Music Stories Important Haircut Naïve Newcomer I Need a Freaking Drink World of Ham There Is No Kill Like Overkill Retirony Heroic Sacrifice Gainax Ending One-Man Army Hooker with a Heart of Gold Catapult Nightmare Lock and Load Montage Big Eater Madness Mantra Vampire Fiction Anti-Villain Character Development Deal with the Devil May–December Romance Closed Circle Fun with Acronyms Science Fiction Films Honor Before Reason Evil Is Hammy Does Not Like Shoes Parental Incest Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Victoria's Secret Compartment Running Gag Depraved Bisexual "Shaggy Dog" Story Villain Song Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Dumb Blonde Pretty Little Headshots Reasonable Authority Figure The Mafia Dropped a Bridge on Him Aluminum Christmas Trees Hope Spot Disappeared Dad Took a Level in Badass Silent Movie Damsel in Distress Vitriolic Best Buds Loads and Loads of Characters Adaptational Villainy Curse Cut Short Fatal Flaw Not Quite Dead Eldritch Abomination Flashback Defiant to the End "Where Are They Now?" 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Affably Evil Left the Background Music On Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Deus ex Machina Genre Savvy Gorn Off-into-the-Distance Ending Blood from the Mouth Romantic False Lead Parental Neglect Killed Mid-Sentence The Atoner Rasputinian Death Zombie Stories Up to Eleven Covers Always Lie Car Fu It Will Never Catch On What the Hell, Hero? Rich Bitch Ominous Latin Chanting Naked People Are Funny Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Neck Lift Obfuscating Stupidity Missing Mom Cluster F-Bomb My God, What Have I Done? 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Paper-Thin Disguise The End... Or Is It? 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Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Actually Pretty Funny Immune to Bullets Scenery Gorn Leaning on the Fourth Wall Fish out of Water Karmic Death Together in Death Evil Counterpart Early Installment Weirdness Canon Foreigner The Stinger It's All About Me Anti-Hero Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Offscreen Teleportation Manipulative Bastard Face Death with Dignity Insistent Terminology Mood Whiplash Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Early-Bird Cameo Adapted Out Advertised Extra Slap-Slap-Kiss Let's Get Dangerous! The Voiceless Nice Guy Film Noir Bound and Gagged Faux Affably Evil Humiliation Conga Fourth Date Marriage Reality Ensues Book-Ends You Have Failed Me Evil Plan Daddy's Girl Retcon Defrosting Ice Queen Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Did Not Get the Girl Everyone Has Standards Mexican Standoff Oh, Crap!