Tropescilloscope: Madness Mantra

Insanity leads to constant repetition. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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And I Must Scream Karmic Death The Film of the Book Our Vampires Are Different Lighter and Softer Noodle Incident Dirty Cop In Medias Res Annoying Younger Sibling Bury Your Gays Monumental Damage Green-Eyed Monster Never Trust a Trailer The Alcoholic Bad Boss Really Gets Around Sports Stories Badass in a Nice Suit Heel Realization Destination Defenestration Knight Templar Video Credits Ambiguous Ending Black Comedy The Voiceless Love Triangle Foregone Conclusion Self-Deprecation Artistic License – Biology Rape as Drama Slashed Throat B-Movie As Long as It Sounds Foreign Important Haircut Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Alliterative Name Fainting Shout-Out Red Herring Spared by the Adaptation My God, What Have I Done? 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Historical In-Joke Catapult Nightmare Morality Pet Punch-Clock Villain Real Life Writes the Plot Shell-Shocked Veteran Thriller Tranquil Fury Adaptation Distillation Intergenerational Friendship Sassy Black Woman Shower Scene Call-Forward Danny Peary Cult Movies List Reality Ensues I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Bad "Bad Acting" Pretty in Mink Jerkass Has a Point Award-Bait Song Motor Mouth Instant Death Bullet Mexican Standoff Race Lift Distracted by the Sexy Final Girl Market-Based Title Rule of Cool Make It Look Like an Accident Curb-Stomp Battle Wicked Cultured Bloodless Carnage Mad Scientist Unreliable Narrator Unusually Uninteresting Sight Not So Different It Will Never Catch On The Lancer An Axe to Grind Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Reasonable Authority Figure Room Full of Crazy The '90s The Un-Reveal Retcon Stylistic Suck Freudian Excuse Chewing the Scenery Adaptational Attractiveness folderlabel Genre Savvy Spiritual Successor Would Hit a Girl Male Frontal Nudity Woman Scorned Woman in White The Casanova Fat Bastard Crapsack World Karma Houdini Four-Temperament Ensemble No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Disguised in Drag Chase Scene Men Are the Expendable Gender Hero Antagonist Manly Tears Suspiciously Specific Denial Foreshadowing Serial Killer Tagline Running Gag What the Hell, Hero? 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Is a Crapshoot Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Vampire Fiction Extreme Doormat Central Theme Artistic License – Physics Eldritch Abomination Meaningful Name Bloody Hilarious Agony of the Feet Psychopathic Manchild Anyone Can Die Antagonist Title Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Public Domain Feature Films Narrator Those Wacky Nazis Chekhov's Gun Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Age Lift Made of Iron Anachronic Order It's All About Me The Alleged Car Grievous Bottley Harm Death Seeker Disney Death Damsel in Distress Butt-Monkey Cold-Blooded Torture Retired Badass You Have Failed Me The Mafia Stalker with a Crush Protagonist Title Adults Are Useless Setting Update Bond Villain Stupidity Manic Pixie Dream Girl Lock and Load Montage The '60s Index of Film Westerns Italian Films Alpha Bitch Dramedy Race Against the Clock Off-into-the-Distance Ending Flashback Composite Character Bloodier and Gorier Bowdlerise Brick Joke Fantasy Films Rich Bitch Death by Irony Faux Affably Evil Villain Song Calling the Old Man Out Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Skewed Priorities Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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She Cleans Up Nicely Russian Films No Name Given Ascended Extra Big Eater As You Know Bait-and-Switch Black Best Friend Knife Nut Animal Motifs Wounded Gazelle Gambit Only One Name Scenery Gorn Too Dumb to Live Missing Mom Improbable Aiming Skills Downer Ending Vacation Films Mighty Whitey Big Bad Duumvirate Fantastic Racism Mistaken for Gay Hypocritical Humor The Faceless Disappeared Dad Hell Is That Noise Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Bottomless Magazines Even Evil Has Standards I Want My Beloved to Be Happy N-Word Privileges Meaningful Echo The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Defrosting Ice Queen The Ghost Those Two Guys Frame-Up Disney Villain Death La Résistance Stealth Pun "Shaggy Dog" Story Not Quite Dead Very Loosely Based on a True Story Gone Horribly Right Gainax Ending Diabolus ex Machina Big Applesauce Stealth Hi/Bye Evil Plan Sole Survivor No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Vomit Discretion Shot Blood Knight Villain with Good Publicity Action Girl Death by Sex Darkest Hour Scary Black Man Babies Ever After Parental Incest Drill Sergeant Nasty Evil Is Hammy Sinister Minister Genre Throwback World of Ham Jerk with a Heart of Gold Bare Your Midriff Kids Are Cruel Anguished Declaration of Love Christmas Movies Index Cool Shades Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Dark Action Girl Jerkass Yandere Berserk Button Children Are Innocent Crazy Jealous Guy She's Got Legs "Awesome McCool" Name Overly Long Gag Kill 'em All Happily Married Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Lampshade Hanging Older Than They Look Unusual Euphemism Big Brother Instinct Sequel Escalation Malevolent Masked Men As the Good Book Says... Music Stories Fire-Forged Friends Redshirt Army '80s Hair Trailers Always Spoil Film Noir Index You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Immune to Bullets Decoy Protagonist Blood from the Mouth Not Using the "Z" Word Hollywood Darkness Unspoken Plan Guarantee He Knows Too Much Every Car Is a Pinto Ominous Latin Chanting Recycled IN SPACE! 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Paper-Thin Disguise Easily Forgiven Getting Crap Past the Radar Implacable Man The Musical Hate Sink Toplessness from the Back Card-Carrying Villain The Quiet One Whole Plot Reference Deliberate Values Dissonance He Who Fights Monsters Time Skip Overprotective Dad You Killed My Father All There in the Manual Leave the Camera Running Hope Spot Abhorrent Admirer Papa Wolf Same Language Dub Guns Akimbo Corpsing Didn't Think This Through Betty and Veronica Only in It for the Money Nice Hat All Just a Dream Defiant to the End Major Injury Underreaction Early Installment Weirdness Have a Gay Old Time Big Damn Heroes Credits Gag Almost Kiss Mystery and Detective Films Fingore Epic Movie Brainless Beauty Evil Sounds Deep Storming the Castle Historical Hero Upgrade Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Anachronism Stew Super Strength Dissonant Serenity Undying Loyalty Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Slap-Slap-Kiss Pet the Dog Extremely Short Timespan Break the Cutie Imagine Spot Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Kill It with Fire Hidden Depths Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping I Need a Freaking Drink The Remake Expository Hairstyle Change Once More, with Clarity! 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