Tropescilloscope: Loophole Abuse

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Big Brother Instinct Stuff Blowing Up Kick the Son of a Bitch Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Missing Mom Bloodless Carnage Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Paper-Thin Disguise For Want of a Nail Brick Joke The Dreaded More Dakka Public Domain Feature Films Took a Level in Badass Breaking the Fourth Wall Karma Houdini Aside Glance Vomit Indiscretion Shot Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Fantastic Racism Tap on the Head Psychopathic Manchild Cold-Blooded Torture Sealed Evil in a Can Didn't Think This Through Shower Scene Final Girl Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Spell My Name with an "S" Artistic License – Military Suddenly SHOUTING! Amusing Injuries Affably Evil Show Within a Show Character Development Dogged Nice Guy Aluminum Christmas Trees Dual Wielding For the Evulz Sequel Escalation The Brute Dark Action Girl Cowboy Cop Never Trust a Trailer Funny Background Event Betty and Veronica Jump Scare Fiery Redhead Plot Hole Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Disguised in Drag Big Bad Duumvirate Rich Bitch Red Herring The Place Important Haircut Badass Longcoat The Smart Guy Woman Scorned Tempting Fate Author Avatar Scenery Porn Broken Bird Cool Car And Starring Chewing the Scenery Adaptational Heroism Laughing Mad Five-Man Band Love at First Sight Drowning My Sorrows Cluster F-Bomb Early Installment Weirdness Dying Moment of Awesome Drill Sergeant Nasty Trailers Always Spoil Major Injury Underreaction Intergenerational Friendship Romantic Comedy Married to the Job The Load Celebrity Paradox Determinator Villain Opening Scene Video Credits Domestic Abuse Camp Gay Have a Gay Old Time Running Gag Department of Redundancy Department Market-Based Title All Girls Want Bad Boys No Antagonist The Mafia Mood Whiplash True Companions Guns Akimbo Becoming the Mask Book-Ends Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Back from the Dead Not What It Looks Like Big Fancy House The Hero Pimped-Out Dress Artistic License – Gun Safety Italian Films Extremely Short Timespan Sexy Discretion Shot The Oner Badass Boast Not So Different Improbable Aiming Skills Adaptational Villainy Wretched Hive He Who Fights Monsters Determinator aka: The Determinator Gratuitous English Adaptational Badass After the End Mind Screw And I Must Scream Make It Look Like an Accident Totally Radical Rousing Speech Henpecked Husband Historical-Domain Character Exactly What It Says on the Tin Heroic Sacrifice Eyepatch of Power The Bad Guy Wins Suspiciously Similar Substitute Oh, Crap! Your Cheating Heart Up to Eleven Imagine Spot Music Stories Ax-Crazy It Will Never Catch On Hollywood Darkness Lock and Load Montage No Ending Bavarian Fire Drill Early-Bird Cameo Hero of Another Story The '70s Big "NO!" Jitter Cam The Chick Sci-Fi Horror Nice Guy Creative Closing Credits MacGuffin Does Not Like Shoes Soundtrack Dissonance Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Ripped from the Headlines Hong Kong Films The '50s Man on Fire Stylistic Suck Adaptation Name Change Every Car Is a Pinto All There in the Manual Pre-Mortem One-Liner Vomit Discretion Shot Japanese Films Bar Brawl Only Sane Man Posthumous Character Cool Shades Adaptation Distillation Closed Circle The Starscream Peek-a-Boo Corpse Gainax Ending Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Psychological Thriller Ass Shove Storming the Castle Darkest Hour Wham Shot Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Canadian Movies Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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They Really Do Love Each Other The Un-Reveal Stealth Pun Large Ham Reality Is Unrealistic Real Life Writes the Plot Russian Films Red Right Hand Rated M for Manly Suspiciously Specific Denial Curse Cut Short Faking the Dead Gold Digger Dramatic Irony Jerkass Has a Point Sequel Hook I Have Your Wife Accidental Misnaming Eagleland Horror Comedy Daddy's Girl Meaningful Background Event Manchild Actor Allusion Ghost Fiction From Bad to Worse Dark and Troubled Past Shell-Shocked Veteran Bottomless Magazines The Power of Love Did Not Get the Girl Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Cat Scare Sacrificial Lion Once More, with Clarity! Animated Credits Opening One Steve Limit Hair-Trigger Temper Brainless Beauty Obviously Evil One-Man Army I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Author Appeal Depraved Bisexual Small Name, Big Ego The Bully Skewed Priorities Creepy Child Artistic License – Geography Slashed Throat Canon Foreigner In the Back Those Two Bad Guys Non-Indicative Name There Is No Kill Like Overkill In Medias Res Crazy Jealous Guy Parental Substitute Recycled IN SPACE! Award-Bait Song Ungrateful Bastard "Shaggy Dog" Story Body Horror Ascended Extra Visual Pun Cain and Abel Four-Temperament Ensemble Black Best Friend Adapted Out Straight Gay Thriller Comically Missing the Point Hero Antagonist Fanservice Extra Dark Reprise Happily Married Pragmatic Adaptation Shown Their Work B-Movie Artistic License – Law The Mole Agony of the Feet Adult Fear Stealth Hi/Bye Parental Neglect Kill 'em All Bland-Name Product Destination Defenestration Combat Pragmatist Dirty Coward Artistic License – History Bad Boss Good Is Not Nice Loophole Abuse Retcon Bare Your Midriff Match Cut Children Are Innocent Not Quite Dead Chase Scene Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Continuity Nod Composite Character Fake Shemp Insane Troll Logic Knight Templar Death Glare Wicked Cultured Disney Death Framing Device Ambiguous Disorder Vacation Films Jerk Jock Deliberately Monochrome Actually Pretty Funny Unwitting Instigator of Doom Freudian Excuse Roaring Rampage of Revenge Adaptational Attractiveness Mooks Greater-Scope Villain Fatal Flaw Worthy Opponent '80s Hair Darker and Edgier The Stoner Loads and Loads of Characters Insistent Terminology Calling the Old Man Out No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Deus ex Machina It's Personal Anti-Villain No-Sell Stepford Smiler Get Out! 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Irony Say My Name Extreme Doormat Honor Before Reason Evil Is Petty Historical In-Joke Blood Knight Historical Hero Upgrade Shirtless Scene Well-Intentioned Extremist Victoria's Secret Compartment Bond Villain Stupidity Race Lift Based on a True Story Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Kubrick Stare Affectionate Parody Kids Are Cruel Vitriolic Best Buds Reasonable Authority Figure The Dog Bites Back Time Skip Retirony Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Auto Erotica Moment Killer Those Two Guys Broken Pedestal Cool Guns Evil Plan Annoying Younger Sibling Dies Wide Open Adorkable Re-Cut I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Asshole Victim Our Vampires Are Different Red Shirt Contrived Coincidence Dull Surprise Animal Motifs The Reveal Reality Has No Subtitles Not So Stoic Rule of Funny Sadistic Choice Empathic Environment Fire-Forged Friends Hypocritical Humor Driven to Suicide Not So Above It All Took a Level in Jerkass As You Know Ambiguously Gay Death by Adaptation Pretty Little Headshots Laser-Guided Karma Slasher Movie Refuge in Audacity folderlabel Instant Death Bullet Captain Ersatz War Is Hell Heroic BSoD Big Eater Black and Gray Morality Hoist by His Own Petard Chekhov's Gun Film Series Romantic False Lead Friend to All Children Gorn Foil The Cavalry Woman in White Almost Kiss Earn Your Happy Ending Fate Worse than Death Hate Sink Black Comedy Anguished Declaration of Love Even Evil Has Loved Ones Silent Movie Killed Mid-Sentence As Himself Your Head A-Splode Bound and Gagged Deadpan Snarker She's Got Legs Chiaroscuro Demonic Possession Madness Mantra World of Ham Villain Protagonist Jerk with a Heart of Gold An Arm and a Leg Bald of Evil Corpsing Artistic License – Biology Face–Heel Turn Those Wacky Nazis Vampire Fiction Parental Incest Even Evil Has Standards Faux Affably Evil Authority Equals Asskicking Central Theme The Ghost Credits Gag Genre Savvy Heel–Face Turn Age Lift Dirty Cop I Need a Freaking Drink Expository Hairstyle Change Bowdlerise You Killed My Father Badass Normal Older Than They Look Defiant to the End Badass in a Nice Suit Dressing as the Enemy Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Scary Black Man Fat Bastard "Awesome McCool" Name Cool Old Guy Serial Killer A.I. Is a Crapshoot Riddle for the Ages Villain Song Despair Event Horizon Leave the Camera Running Advertised Extra Animal Title Index Motor Mouth Made of Explodium Unresolved Sexual Tension Berserk Button Stalker with a Crush Male Frontal Nudity Made of Iron Unreliable Narrator Country Matters Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Rape as Drama She Cleans Up Nicely Shipper on Deck Decoy Protagonist Disney Villain Death A Minor Kidroduction Frame-Up Nothing Is Scarier Historical Villain Upgrade Mad Scientist Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Blatant Lies Only Known by Their Nickname Foregone Conclusion Curb-Stomp Battle Gender Flip Token Minority Revenge Rewatch Bonus Sassy Black Woman Costume Porn Anyone Can Die Hidden Depths Face Death with Dignity Black Dude Dies First Beta Couple The Vamp Badass Grandpa Manic Pixie Dream Girl Brother–Sister Incest Title Drop The Big Guy Catch-Phrase The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Hollywood Law Truth in Television Mundane Made Awesome The Voiceless Informed Ability Downer Ending Bring My Brown Pants 20 Minutes into the Future Red Oni, Blue Oni The Lancer Drugs Are Bad Protagonist Title Enemy Mine Shoot the Shaggy Dog Yandere Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Needs Wiki Magic Love Improvised Weapon Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Unusual Euphemism Interrupted Suicide Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Double-Meaning Title Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Cool Old Lady Adaptation Expansion Television Movie Index Psycho for Hire Corrupt Corporate Executive Mighty Whitey Eiffel Tower Effect Alas, Poor Villain The Ditz Fourth Date Marriage All Just a Dream Bi the Way Mercy Kill Spiritual Successor Mugging the Monster Ms. Fanservice What Happened to the Mouse? Pay Evil unto Evil Offscreen Teleportation The Casanova Index of Film Westerns Only a Flesh Wound The Cameo Put on a Bus Playing Gertrude Black Comedy Rape Humiliation Conga Death by Irony The End... Or Is It? Genre Shift What You Are in the Dark Plucky Comic Relief Here We Go Again! 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Immune to Bullets Abhorrent Admirer My Beloved Smother Twist Ending Jerkass Exact Words British Films Boom, Headshot! Distracted by the Sexy Evil Brit Handicapped Badass Expy Action Genre Facial Horror Obfuscating Stupidity Wham Line