Tropescilloscope: Male Gaze

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Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Artistic License – Geography Arch-Enemy Big Applesauce Asshole Victim Cold-Blooded Torture Funny Foreigner Insistent Terminology Light Is Not Good Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Eldritch Abomination Very Loosely Based on a True Story Affectionate Parody Whole Plot Reference The Bully Red Eyes, Take Warning Laser-Guided Karma What You Are in the Dark Mystery and Detective Films Totally Radical Ms. Fanservice Running Gag Madness Mantra Overprotective Dad Rasputinian Death Parental Incest Aluminum Christmas Trees Combat Pragmatist Monumental Damage Author Appeal Market-Based Title Determinator Sealed Evil in a Can Wretched Hive Daddy's Girl The Stoner Karmic Death Man on Fire Dying Moment of Awesome Sinister Minister Police are Useless Playing Gertrude Scenery Porn "Shaggy Dog" Story Cat Scare Darkest Hour Accidental Murder Babies Ever After Never Trust a Trailer "Well Done, Son!" 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Danny Peary Cult Movies List One Steve Limit All Men Are Perverts Horror Comedy Off with His Head! Left the Background Music On O.O.C. Is Serious Business Intergenerational Friendship Hypocritical Humor Red Shirt Advertised Extra Disappeared Dad Establishing Character Moment Parental Substitute Creator Cameo Empathic Environment Rule of Funny Every Car Is a Pinto Jitter Cam Obstructive Bureaucrat I Did What I Had to Do timeperiod Only One Name British Films NO INDOOR VOICE All for Nothing Action Prologue Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Oh, Crap! Cool Old Lady Real Life Writes the Plot Adapted Out Overly Long Gag Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Deconstruction He Knows Too Much Awesome, but Impractical French Films Big-Bad Ensemble Mad Scientist Not So Stoic Fate Worse than Death The Faceless Hollywood Law Children Are Innocent The Alleged Car Biopic A Father to His Men Extremely Short Timespan Eye Scream Russian Films Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer "Awesome McCool" Name Serious Business Retired Badass Henpecked Husband Failed a Spot Check Corrupt Corporate Executive The Ace Race Lift Broken Aesop Abusive Parents Aside Glance Australian Movies The Big Guy Lock and Load Montage Offscreen Teleportation Diabolus ex Machina The Lancer Parental Abandonment Posthumous Character Bar Brawl Taking the Bullet Call-Back Superhero Documentary Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Immune to Bullets Adaptation Name Change The Smurfette Principle Captain Ersatz Irony Sole Survivor Soft Glass Big "NO!" 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Not Even Bothering with the Accent Adorkable Science Fiction Films Agony of the Feet Covers Always Lie Sexy Discretion Shot Enemy Mine Bad Boss The Vamp Historical Hero Upgrade Attempted Rape Chekhov's Gunman Disguised in Drag Eiffel Tower Effect Sci-Fi Horror The Mafia Vomit Discretion Shot Eagleland Disney Villain Death Animal Motifs Small Name, Big Ego In Name Only Film Noir Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Nothing Is Scarier Hope Spot What Happened to the Mouse? Body Horror Camera Abuse Shell-Shocked Veteran Crazy-Prepared Villain Opening Scene Green-Eyed Monster Dark Reprise Leitmotif Mistaken for Gay Belligerent Sexual Tension Cool Guns The X of Y The Smart Guy Naked People Are Funny Unreliable Narrator Shirtless Scene Homage Mooks Stalker with a Crush Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Developing Doomed Characters Ghost Fiction Redemption Equals Death Death Seeker The Sociopath Hong Kong Films Instant Death Bullet Dressing as the Enemy Cloudcuckoolander Not Using the "Z" Word Defiant to the End Spared by the Adaptation Authority Equals Asskicking My God, What Have I Done? The '50s Hollywood Darkness Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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Not So Different The Stinger Toplessness from the Back Thriller Double-Meaning Title The Ghost "The Reason You Suck" Speech Outrun the Fireball Age Lift Trailers Always Spoil Adaptational Heroism Silence Is Golden Reality Is Unrealistic Dramedy Wounded Gazelle Gambit Precision F-Strike Intrepid Reporter BFG Non-Indicative Name Spiritual Successor Dirty Coward Bloodier and Gorier Dramatic Gun Cock And Starring Dirty Cop Worthy Opponent Stealth Hi/Bye Butt-Monkey Evil Brit Hero Antagonist I'm a Humanitarian Get Out! Motor Mouth Leave the Camera Running Same Language Dub Adaptation Distillation The Lost Lenore You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Frame-Up Mama Bear Adaptation Expansion Ascended Extra Would Hit a Girl