Tropescilloscope: Man on Fire

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As Himself The Ditz Eyepatch of Power Agony of the Feet Product Placement Mooks Horror Comedy Vampire Fiction Roaring Rampage of Revenge Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass '80s Hair Big Applesauce Leaning on the Fourth Wall Reality Is Unrealistic Evil Plan Documentary Pet the Dog Animal Motifs Fatal Flaw Wham Line Papa Wolf Damsel in Distress The '90s The Hero Sports Stories Bavarian Fire Drill Spared by the Adaptation Smug Snake Punny Name The Stoner It Will Never Catch On Gold Digger Catch-Phrase Celebrity Paradox The Reveal Hate Sink Training Montage Shipper on Deck A Date with Rosie Palms Adorkable Demonic Possession Woman Scorned Sequel Escalation Good Is Not Nice Disney Death Big Damn Heroes Deadpan Snarker Jerkass Precision F-Strike Deliberately Monochrome Beauty Is Never Tarnished Anti-Hero Happily Married Those Two Bad Guys Very Loosely Based on a True Story Sealed Evil in a Can Kubrick Stare Dark Reprise Film Noir Cool Old Guy Obfuscating Stupidity Real Life Writes the Plot Revenge Dropped a Bridge on Him An Axe to Grind Villain with Good Publicity Does This Remind You of Anything? She Cleans Up Nicely Red Eyes, Take Warning Dying Moment of Awesome Betty and Veronica Television Movie Index Car Fu Funny Background Event Captain Obvious Russian Films Adaptational Heroism Dissonant Serenity Dull Surprise Friend to All Children Never My Fault Would Hurt a Child Villain Ball Air-Vent Passageway A Father to His Men No Name Given Deconstruction Combat Pragmatist Made of Explodium Shout-Out Gone Horribly Right I Did What I Had to Do Paper-Thin Disguise Cool Car Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Your Cheating Heart Extreme Doormat Curse Cut Short Bolivian Army Ending Broken Pedestal Homage Insane Troll Logic Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Deliberate Values Dissonance Defiant to the End Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Throwing Your Sword Always Works Made of Iron Evil Laugh Protagonist Title Central Theme Disproportionate Retribution Crazy Jealous Guy Non-Indicative Name Mystery and Detective Films Gilligan Cut Drowning My Sorrows Red Oni, Blue Oni Twist Ending Public Domain Feature Films Italian Films The Sociopath Psychological Thriller Eagleland Knife Nut Nice Hat Humans Are Bastards Deal with the Devil Call-Back Black and Gray Morality Mr. Fanservice Dual Wielding All There in the Manual Anyone Can Die Neck Lift Attempted Rape Cain and Abel Not So Different Freeze-Frame Bonus 20 Minutes into the Future Sci-Fi Horror Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Heroic Sacrifice Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Dark and Troubled Past Awesome, but Impractical Country Matters Wicked Cultured Cassandra Truth Film Noir Index Market-Based Title Shower Scene Slasher Movie Villain Protagonist Stepford Smiler Disney Villain Death Off with His Head! Military and Warfare Films Stuff Blowing Up Riddle for the Ages Film Series The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite The Quiet One Exactly What It Says on the Tin Refuge in Audacity Getting Crap Past the Radar You Have Failed Me Visual Pun Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping BFG Affectionate Parody All for Nothing Dark Is Not Evil Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Stylistic Suck Bittersweet Ending Mighty Whitey Stalker with a Crush Loads and Loads of Characters The Mafia Spiritual Successor Improbable Aiming Skills Christmas Movies Index Male Gaze Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Drill Sergeant Nasty Anti-Villain Stealth Pun Accidental Murder Meaningful Name Adaptational Attractiveness Blatant Lies Apocalypse How Eiffel Tower Effect Historical-Domain Character Unusual Euphemism Rule of Symbolism Heel Realization timeperiod The Mole Truth in Television Anachronism Stew And the Adventure Continues Brainless Beauty He Knows Too Much Serial Killer Adults Are Useless The Stoic Animal Title Index Gratuitous English The End... Or Is It? The Film of the Book Tagline Hero Antagonist Evil Is Hammy Black Comedy Rape Straight Gay Badass Longcoat Action Prologue Kill It with Fire Foil Mercy Kill Break the Haughty Last-Name Basis Manly Tears Accidental Misnaming I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Posthumous Character Wham Shot Race Against the Clock Becoming the Mask "Awesome McCool" Name Pretty Little Headshots Mad Scientist No Celebrities Were Harmed Sir Swears-a-Lot Adaptational Villainy Destination Defenestration Oh, Crap! Mind Screw Death by Adaptation Gainax Ending Camera Abuse Calling the Old Man Out Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Adult Fear Lighter and Softer Shoot the Shaggy Dog Jerk Jock I Have Your Wife Closed Circle Better to Die than Be Killed The '50s Loophole Abuse Stealth Hi/Bye Animated Credits Opening Only Known by Their Nickname Super Strength Bi the Way Even Evil Has Loved Ones It Can Think The Voiceless Spell My Name with an "S" Informed Ability Five-Man Band Darkest Hour Artistic License – Biology Cold-Blooded Torture Wounded Gazelle Gambit Half the Man He Used to Be Hair-Trigger Temper Greater-Scope Villain I Need a Freaking Drink Imagine Spot An Aesop Here We Go Again! No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Slap-Slap-Kiss Pimped-Out Dress Ax-Crazy Back from the Dead Blackmail Curb-Stomp Battle Morality Pet Meaningful Echo Breaking the Fourth Wall Really Gets Around Improvised Weapon Implacable Man Groin Attack Artistic License – Geography Bottomless Magazines Evil Is Petty Call-Forward The Bully Expository Hairstyle Change Ironic Echo As You Know Ungrateful Bastard Dark Action Girl Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Genre Shift Line-of-Sight Name Failed a Spot Check "The Reason You Suck" Speech Fish out of Water What Happened to the Mouse? Disappeared Dad Age Lift Worthy Opponent Drugs Are Bad Foregone Conclusion Genre Savvy The Oner Killed Mid-Sentence Recycled IN SPACE! Depraved Bisexual Action Girl Immune to Bullets Chekhov's Skill Big Bad Wretched Hive Bowdlerise Intrepid Reporter Death of a Child Unreliable Narrator Jump Scare Creator Cameo Cool Old Lady Neck Snap Affably Evil Bound and Gagged Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? The Place Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Death Seeker And Starring Dirty Coward Brother–Sister Incest Death Glare The Musical Random Events Plot Knight Templar Famous Last Words Overly Long Gag How We Got Here Nice Guy The X of Y Chase Scene Pragmatic Adaptation Index of Film Westerns Fun with Acronyms Word of God True Companions Artistic License – Gun Safety Conspicuous CG Overprotective Dad Rasputinian Death Big "NO!" Title Drop Pre-Mortem One-Liner NO INDOOR VOICE Logo Joke Redemption Equals Death Chekhov's Gunman Eureka Moment All Just a Dream War Is Hell Even Evil Has Standards Fainting Hidden Depths Aside Glance Hypocritical Humor Say My Name No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Epic Movie Not Even Bothering with the Accent Despair Event Horizon Didn't Think This Through The Chick The Lost Lenore Double Entendre Love Triangle Babies Ever After Butt-Monkey Adaptation Name Change Laser-Guided Karma The Load Same Language Dub Abusive Parents Ambiguous Ending Mugging the Monster Belligerent Sexual Tension Japanese Films Fiery Redhead Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Lock and Load Montage Race Lift Fan Disservice Creative Closing Credits A Minor Kidroduction Department of Redundancy Department For the Evulz Whole Plot Reference Sexy Discretion Shot Continuity Nod Does Not Like Shoes Brutal Honesty Artistic License – Physics Hollywood Law La Résistance Malevolent Masked Men Time Skip Genre Throwback Madness Mantra Comically Missing the Point Naïve Newcomer Beware the Nice Ones In Medias Res Off-into-the-Distance Ending Ascended Extra The '70s Leave the Camera Running Black Comedy Auto Erotica Contrived Coincidence Parental Substitute Enemy Mine All Men Are Perverts Zombie Stories Grey and Gray Morality Only Sane Man Death by Irony Drives Like Crazy Never Trust a Trailer Coming-of-Age Story Camp Gay Cowboy Cop Evil vs. Evil Plot Hole Improbable Weapon User Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Almost Kiss Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Totally Radical Only in It for the Money Offscreen Moment of Awesome Bloodier and Gorier Works Set in World War II Too Dumb to Live Ominous Latin Chanting Re-Cut Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Did Not Get the Girl Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Karmic Death Manchild Screw the Rules, I Have Money! From Bad to Worse Reality Ensues Vacation Films Bond One-Liner Intergenerational Friendship Dirty Old Man Mama Bear Put on a Bus Tempting Fate Fat Bastard Moment Killer Face–Heel Turn Black Dude Dies First folderlabel Heroes Want Redheads What You Are in the Dark Have a Gay Old Time Small Name, Big Ego Horror Films Body Horror Self-Deprecation British Films Grievous Bottley Harm Take That! Take a Third Option Four-Temperament Ensemble Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Psychopathic Manchild Thriller Actor Allusion The Stinger In Name Only After the End Dies Wide Open Bald of Evil Danny Peary Cult Movies List You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Epilogue Asshole Victim All There in the Script Face Death with Dignity There Is No Kill Like Overkill Badass in a Nice Suit Retcon Sinister Minister Author Appeal Motor Mouth The Hero Dies N-Word Privileges Laughing Mad Kids Are Cruel Rewatch Bonus Took a Level in Jerkass Obstructive Bureaucrat Developing Doomed Characters Femme Fatale Domestic Abuse Evil-Detecting Dog Villainous Breakdown Author Avatar Took a Level in Badass Narrator Ass Shove Eldritch Abomination Canadian Movies Slashed Throat Bait-and-Switch Fantasy Films Arc Words Dressing as the Enemy Woman in White Fake Shemp Authority Equals Asskicking Fanservice Extra The Ace Demoted to Extra Break the Cutie Brick Joke Foreshadowing Kill 'em All Final Girl The Cameo Fantastic Racism Anguished Declaration of Love Darker and Edgier Parental Abandonment Dramatic Gun Cock Humiliation Conga You Killed My Father Eye Scream The Remake Be Careful What You Wish For Villain Opening Scene Retirony The Dreaded Badass Bookworm Bland-Name Product Reckless Gun Usage Never Found the Body Sole Survivor Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Anachronic Order Police Brutality Everyone Has Standards Bullying a Dragon Unwitting Instigator of Doom One-Word Title It's Personal Bunny-Ears Lawyer Guile Hero Scary Black Man Missing Mom Amoral Attorney Pay Evil unto Evil Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Running Gag No Ending Evil Sounds Deep Men Are the Expendable Gender Bring My Brown Pants Playing Gertrude Amusing Injuries The Brute Disguised in Drag Insult Backfire Berserk Button Parental Neglect Composite Character Martial Arts Movie Meaningful Background Event It's All About Me Large Ham Naked People Are Funny More Dakka Faux Affably Evil Noodle Incident "Shaggy Dog" Story Undying Loyalty Manic Pixie Dream Girl My Beloved Smother Nothing Is Scarier Artistic License – Military Fatal Family Photo Bury Your Gays Australian Movies Tranquil Fury Heel–Face Turn Suddenly SHOUTING! Ambiguous Disorder Due to the Dead Romantic Comedy The Faceless Our Zombies Are Different Catapult Nightmare Artistic License – History As the Good Book Says... Advertised Extra Ambiguously Gay Maybe Ever After Creepy Child Bloody Hilarious Big Bad Duumvirate Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Fingore Beta Couple Freudian Excuse Funny Foreigner Green-Eyed Monster Rule of Three Shirtless Scene The Chessmaster Crucified Hero Shot Ms. Fanservice Bare Your Midriff The Ghost Reasonable Authority Figure Badass Grandpa World of Ham Important Haircut What the Hell, Hero? Rich Bitch No Antagonist Karma Houdini Dramedy And I Must Scream Annoying Younger Sibling Blood from the Mouth Double-Meaning Title Mood Whiplash Fate Worse than Death Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Vomit Indiscretion Shot Determinator aka: The Determinator Hollywood Darkness Spanner in the Works Big Brother Instinct Reality Has No Subtitles Storming the Castle No OSHA Compliance Rule of Funny The Power of Love Married to the Job The '80s Guns Akimbo Those Two Guys Wrong Genre Savvy Translation Convention Arranged Marriage Sadistic Choice Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane The Smart Guy Alpha Bitch Interrupted Suicide Manipulative Bastard Male Frontal Nudity Hypocrite For Want of a Nail This Is Gonna Suck My Greatest Failure Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Broken Aesop Mexican Standoff The Alcoholic Rape as Drama Corpsing The Cavalry The Smurfette Principle Jitter Cam Deus ex Machina Bilingual Bonus A God Am I Sequel Hook Scenery Porn I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie German Films Needs Wiki Magic Love As Long as It Sounds Foreign Setting Update Arch-Enemy Mythology Gag Cloudcuckoolander Ripped from the Headlines Adaptation Distillation Man on Fire Victoria's Secret Compartment The Alleged Car Yandere Rousing Speech Ghost Fiction Credits Gag Vomit Discretion Shot Pragmatic Villainy Cat Scare Cool Shades Make It Look Like an Accident Badass Boast Big Eater Casting Gag Extremely Short Timespan Gender Flip Faking the Dead Insistent Terminology Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Slasher Smile Henpecked Husband Parental Incest Show Within a Show In the Back The Dog Bites Back Fourth Date Marriage Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! No-Sell The Atoner Ship Tease Taking the Bullet Trailers Always Spoil Hooker with a Heart of Gold Token Minority Outrun the Fireball From Nobody to Nightmare Only One Name Your Head A-Splode Soundtrack Dissonance Alas, Poor Villain Downer Ending Soft Glass French Films Red Right Hand Sacrificial Lion Big Fancy House Kick the Dog Heroic BSoD The Big Guy Romantic False Lead Facial Horror Hero of Another Story Corrupt Corporate Executive May–December Romance Distracted by the Sexy The Lancer Sassy Black Woman Expy She's Got Legs Mr. Exposition Silent Movie Captain Ersatz Major Injury Underreaction Historical In-Joke Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Meet Cute Peek-a-Boo Corpse The Vamp Adaptation Dye-Job Bad Boss Chekhov's Gun Monumental Damage Handicapped Badass Jerk with a Heart of Gold Rated M for Manly One-Man Army Abhorrent Admirer Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Punch-Clock Villain Dirty Cop Death by Sex Frame-Up Idiot Ball